G/TBT/N/TZA/769  
9 May 2022  
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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 (TBS);  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo;  
P O BOX 9524, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;  
Tel: +255 222450206;  
E- mail: info@tbs.go.tz ; 
Website: 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 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Trunks, 
suit-cases, vanity -cases, executive -cases, bri ef-cases, school satchels, spectacle cases, 
binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar 
containers; travelling -bags, insulated food or beverages bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, 
handbags, shopping -bags, wallets, pu rses, map -cases, cigarette -cases, tobacco -pouches, 
tool bags, sports bags, bottle -cases, jewellery boxes, powder -boxes, cutlery cases and 
similar containers, of leather or of composition leather, of sheeting of plastics, of textile 
materials, of vulcanised  fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such 
materials or with paper. (HS code(s): 4202); Raw skins, hides and pelts (ICS code(s): 
59.140.20)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  TDC 3 (1142) 
CD3, Textiles — Travelling Bags – Part 1: Suitcase type — Specification, First Edition; (17 
page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Tanzania Standard specifies requirements, sampling, 
and test methods for suitcase type of travel bag made of textile f abrics, leather or plastic 
materials  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Quality requirements; Reducing trade 
barriers and facilitating trade  G/TBT/N/TZA/769  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• KS 2746 - 1 Travel bags — Specification (First Edition) Part 1: Suitcase type travel 
bags.  
• IS 8518 – Specification for suitcase air travel.  
• TZS 4, Rounding off numerical values.  
• TZS 21, Textiles – Woven or knitted fabrics – Determination of mass per unit 
length and per unit area.  
• TZS 22, Textiles - Woven fabrics - Determination of breaking load and extension.  
• TZS 40, Textiles - Tests for colour fastness to light: Daylight.  
• TZS 43, Textiles - Tests for colour fastness - Fastness to washing: Test 1.  
• TZS 44, Textiles - Woven or knitted fabrics - Determination of length and width.  
• TZS 27, Textiles determination of dimensional changes of fabrics by cold water 
immersion  
• TZS 138, Textile -test for colour fastness to rubbing. i) TZS 280, Textiles – Test 
for colour fastness – Colour fastness to perspiration.  
• TZS 326, Textiles – Ternary fibre mixtures – Quantitative analysis. k) TZS 327, 
Textiles – Binary fibre mixtures – Quantitative chemical analysis.  
• TZS 531, Textiles – Tests for  colour fastness – Colour fastness to spotting: Water.  
• TZS 1136, Textile – Zippers – Specification.  
• TZS 1425, Textile - Sewing Threads Specification - Sewing threads made wholly 
or partly from synthetic fibres.  
• TZS 2510, Leather for upholstery – Specificat ions. 
• TZS 3200, Textile – Requirements for flat woven lining material.  
• ISO 62, Plastics — Determination of water absorption. r) ISO 180, Plastics — 
Determination of Izod impact strength.  
• ISO 527 -1, Plastics — Determination of tensile properties — Part 1: G eneral 
principles. t) ISO 898 -2, Mechanical properties of fasteners made of carbon steel 
and alloy steel — Part 2: Nuts with specified property classes — Coarse thread 
and fine pitch thread. u) ISO 13936 – 1, Textiles — Determination of the slippage 
resistance of yarns at a seam in woven fabrics — Part 1: Fixed seam opening 
method. v) ISO 13936 – 2, Textiles — Determination of the slippage resistance 
of yarns at a seam in woven fabrics — Part 2: Fixed load method. ISO 13937 - 1, 
Textiles — Tear properties of fabrics — Part 1: Determination of tear force using 
ballistic pendulum method (Elmendorf). Check TZS available  
• ISO 13938 – 2, Textiles — Bursting properties of fabrics — Part 2: Pneumatic 
method for determination of bursting strength and bursting disten sion. Check TZS 
available  
• ISO 6383, Plastics — Film and sheeting — Determination of tear resistance — Part 
2: Elmendorf method  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/TZA/769  
 
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  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  
Tel: +(255) 22 2450206  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz ; bahati.samilla ni@tbs.go.tz  
Website: http://www.tbs.go.tz  
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