G/TBT/N/TZA/316  
21 October 2019  
(19-6852) 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 22245020  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz  
Website: www.tbs.go.tz  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbe rs, 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):  Paper 
products (ICS 85.080)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  TBS/C DC-10 
(6437) P3 THERMAL PAPER ROLLS — SPECIFICATION (9 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Tanzania Standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and methods of test of thermal paper rolls  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
TZS 4: Rounding off numerical values  
TZS 80: Paper – Sampling methods for testing  
TZS 81: Method for the determination of grammage (basic mass)  
TZS 82 - ISO 187: Paper, board and pulps – Standard atmosphere for conditioning and 
testing and procedure for monitoring the atmosphere and conditioning of samples.  
TZS 83: -ISO 287: Paper and board — Determination of moisture content of a lot — Oven-
drying method  
TZS 84: Paper and board – Determination of opacity (paper backing) – Diffuse reflectance 
method  
TZS 748 -2: - ISO 1924 -2, Paper and board — Determination of tensile properties —- Part 
2: Constant rate of elongation method (20 m m/min)  
TZS 886: -ISO 2470: Paper and board – Measurement of blue reflectance factor (ISO 
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  TZS 891: -ISO 534: Paper and board — Determination of thickness, density and specific 
volume  
ISO 4046: Paper, board, pulps and related terms - Vocabulary  
ISO 5627: Paper and board - Determination of smoothness (bekk method)  
ISO 8791 -2: - Paper and board - Determination of roughness/smoothness  
(air leak methods) -- Part 2: Bendtsen method  
ISO 2493 -1: - Paper and board -- Determination of bending resistance -- Part 1: Constant 
rate of deflection  
ASTM D 6789: standard test method for accelerated light aging of printing and writing 
paper by xenon -arc exposure apparatus   
9. Proposed date of adoption:  March 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon declaration as a mandatory by the Minister for 
Industry, Trade and Investment  
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:   
Tanzania Bureau of Standards,  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O BOX 9524  
Tel: +255 22245020  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz  
Website: www.tbs.go.tz  
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