G/TBT/N/TZA/771  
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); Other products of the textile industry (ICS 
code(s): 59.080.99)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  TDC 3 (1140) 
CD3, Textiles — Woven High -Density Polyethylene/Polypropylene (HDPE/PP) Shopping 
bags — Specification, First Edition; (8 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Tanzania Standard specifies requirements for the 
materials, dimensions, and p erformance of woven HDPE/PP shopping bags.  
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/771  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• 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 24 Textiles - Tests for colour fastness – Colour fastness to washing: Test 4.  
• TZS 26 Textiles - Determination of conductivity, pH, water -soluble matter, 
chloride and sulphate in aqueous extracts.  
• TZS 40 Textiles - Tests for colour fastness – Colour fastness to light: Daylight.  
• TZS 138 Textiles - Test for colour fastness to rubbing.  
• ISO 3451 Plastics — Determination of ash — Part 1: General methods.  
• ISO 13936 – 1, Textiles — Determination of the slippage resistance of yarns at a 
seam in woven fabrics — Part 1: Fi xed seam opening method.  
• 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 ba llistic pendulum method (Elmendorf).  
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  
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.samillani@tbs.go.tz  
Website: http://www.tbs.go.tz  
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