G/TBT/N/UGA/1053  
 
23 April 2019  
(19-2630) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UGANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
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 [X], 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):  School 
bags; Trunks, suit -cases, vanity -cases, executive -cases, brief -cases, school satchels, 
spectacle cases, bin ocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, 
holsters and similar containers; travelling -bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet 
bags, rucksacks, handbags, shopping bags, wallets, purses, map -cases, cigarette -cases, 
tobacco -pouche s, 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 4202); Sacks. Bags (ICS 55.080)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS 2130:2019, 
School bags — Specification, First Edition (28 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft Uganda Standard specifies materials, making up, 
marking and labelling requirements for school bags of back pack type.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevent ion of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ISO 105 B04, Textiles — Colour fastness Part B04: Determination of colour 
fastness to weathering: Xenon  arc fading lamp test 
2. ISO 105 E01, Textiles — Tests for colour fastness Part E01: Colour fastness to 
water  
3. ISO 811, Textile fabrics — Determination of resistance to water penetration  
4. ISO 1833 -11, Textiles — Quantitative chemical analysis Part 11. Mixtures of 
cellulose and Polyester  fibres (method using sulphuric acid)  
5. ISO 2076: Textiles — Man-made fibres — Generic names  G/TBT/N/UGA/1053  
 
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  6. ISO 3759, Textiles — Preparation, marking and measuring of fabric specimens 
and garments in tests for  determination of dimensional change  
7. ISO 6940, Textile fabrics — Burning behaviour — Determination of ease of ignition  
8. US ISO 13934 -1, Textiles — Tensile properties of fabrics Part 1: Determination of 
maximum force and  elongation at maximum force using the strip method  
9. ISO 13936 -1, Textiles — Determination of the slippage resistance of yarns at a 
seam in woven fabrics — Part 1: Fixed seam opening method  
10. ISO 13936 -2, Textiles — Determination of the slippage resistance of yarns at a 
seam in woven fabrics — Part 2: Fixed load method  
11. ISO 13937 -1, Textiles — Tear pr operties of fabrics — Part 1: Determination of 
tear force using ballistic pendulum method (Elmendorf)  
12. ISO 14389, Textiles — Determination of the phthalate content — Tetrahydrofuran 
method  
13. ISO 16373 -2, Textiles — Dyestuffs — Part 2: General method for the 
determination of extractable dyestuffs including allergenic and carcinogenic 
dyestuffs (method using pyridine -water)  
14. ISO 16373 -3, Textiles — Dyestuffs — Part 3: Method for determination of certain 
carcinogenic dyestuffs (method using triethylamine/methanol)  
15. US 591, Textile fabrics — Abrasion resistance of textile fabrics (Martindale test)  
16. US 948 -1., Textiles — Sewing threads — Part 1: Sewing thread made wholly or 
partly from synthetic fibres — Specification  
17. US EAS  223, Zippers — Specification of vertically oriented specimens  
18. US ISO 105 B02, Textiles — Colour fastness, Part B02: Determination of colour 
fastness to artificial light:  Xenon arc fading lamp test  
19. US ISO 105 C10, Textiles — Colour fastness Part C10 Colour  fastness to washing 
with soap or soap with  soda 
20. US ISO 105 E04, Textiles — Tests for colour fastness Part E04: Colour fastness 
to perspiration  
21. US ISO 105 X12, Textiles — Tests for colour fastness Part X12:Colour fastness to 
rubbing  
22. US ISO 3758, Textiles — Care labeling using symbols  
23. US ISO 3801, Textiles — Woven fabrics — Determination of mass per unit length 
and mass per unit area  
24. US ISO 5077, Textiles — Determination of dimensional change in washing and 
drying  
25. US ISO 6330, Textiles — Domestic washing and  drying procedures for textile 
testing  
26. US ISO 6941, Textile fabrics — Burning behavior — Measurement of spread 
properties of vertically oriented  specimens  
27. US ISO 13935 -1, Seam Tensile properties, Part 1: Strip test  
28. ISO/TR 11827, Textiles — Composition testing — Identification of fibres  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  December 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon declaration as mandatory by the Minister for 
Trade, Industry and Cooperatives  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/UGA/1053  
 
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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:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/UGA/19_2233_00_e.pdf