G/TBT/N/TZA/472  
16 September 2020  
(20-6210) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  TANZANIA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Tanzania Bureau of Standards  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O BOX 9524  
Tel: +255 222450206  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz , www.tbs.go.tz  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email  and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Hydraulic 
fluids (ICS 75.120)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DTZS 
1691:2018 Automatic Transmission Fluids (ATF) based on road vehicles —Specification 
(6 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft Tanzania standard specifies requirements, sampling 
and test method for Automatic Transmission Fluids (ATF) based on roa d vehicles. It also 
specifies the classification as recommended by manufacturers and meeting the modern 
vehicles use. ATF shall be applied to Automotive -on-Road vehicles.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Quality requirements; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
ASTM D 92, Standard test method for flash and fire points by Cleveland open cup  
ASTM D 97, Standard test method for pour point of petroleum products  
ASTM D 130, Standard test method for corrosiveness to copper from petroleum 
products by copper strip test  
ASTM D 445, Standard test method for kinematic viscosity of transparent and opaque 
liquids  
ASTM D 664, Standard test method for acid number of petroleum prod ucts by 
Potentiometric titration  
ASTM D 892, Standard test method for foaming characteristics of lubricating oils  
ASTM D 1500, Standard test method for ASTM Color of petroleum products (ASTM color 
scale)  
ASTM D 2270, Standard practice for calculating visco sity index from kinematic viscosity G/TBT/N/TZA/472  
 
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  at 40 °C and 100 °C  
ASTM D 2983, Standard test Method for low -temperature viscosity of lubricants 
measured by brookfield viscometer  
ASTM D 4052, Standard test method for density and relative density of liquids by digital  
density meter  
ASTM D 4927, Standard test method for elemental analysis of lubricant and additive 
components - barium, calcium, phosphorous, sulfur and zinc by wavelength -dispersive x -
ray fluorescence spectroscopy  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  November 202 0 
Proposed date of entry into force:  6 months from adoption  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Contact person(s):  
Ms. Bahati Samillani (NEP officer) and Mr. Clavery Chausi  
Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS)  
Morogoro/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O Box 9524  
Dar Es Salaam  
+(255) 22 2450206  
nep@tbs.go.tz ; bahati.samillani@tbs.go.tz  
http://www.tbs.go.tz  
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