G/TBT/N/TZA/389  
14 February 2020  
(20-1169) 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  
Website: www.tbs.go.tz  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email a nd 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):  Flat-rolled 
products of iron or non -alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, hot -rolled, not clad, 
plated or coa ted (HS 7208); Iron and steel products (ICS 77.140)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 196: 2020 
High-Strength Low -Alloy Steel (HSLA) for hot rolled sheet and cold rolled sheet — 
Specification (33 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This East African Standard specifies the requirements for steel 
sheet in coils and cut lengths for high -strength low -alloy steel (HSLA) supplied as hot -
rolled sheet and cold -rolled sheet.  
For the purposes of determining conform ance with this specification and the various 
material specifications, values shall be rounded to the nearest unit in the right -hand place 
of figures used in expressing the limiting values.  
For the purposes of determining conformance with this product specification, measured 
values, calculated values, or observed values shall be rounded to the nearest unit in the 
right hand place of figures used in expressing the limiting values.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent proble ms where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• ISO 437, Steel and cast iron — Determination of total carbon content — Combustion 
gravimetric method  
• ISO 439, Steel and iron — Determination of total silicon content — Gravimetric 
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  • ISO 629, Steel and cast iron — Determination of manganese content — 
Spectrophotometric method  
• ISO 671, Steel and cast iron — Determination of sulphur content — Combustion 
titrimetric method  
• ISO 4829 -1 Steel and cast iro n — Determination of total silicon content — Reduced 
molybdosilicate spectrophotometric method — Part 1: Silicon contents between 0.05 
and 1.0 %  
• ISO 4829 -1, Steel and cast iron — Determination of total silicon content — Reduced 
molybdosilicate spectrophoto metric method — Part 1: Silicon contents between 0.05 
and 1.0 %  
• ISO 4829 -2, Steel and iron — Determination of total silicon content — Reduced 
molybdosilicate spectrophotometric method — Part 2: Silicon contents between 0.01 
and 0.05 %  
• ISO 4943, Steel and c ast iron — Determination of copper content — Flame atomic 
absorption spectrometric method  
• ISO 10714, Steel and iron — Determination of phosphorus content — 
Phosphovanadomolybdate spectrophotometric method  
• ISO 14284; Steel and iron — sampling and preparatio n of samples for the 
determination of chemical composition  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  April 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 [ ] 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 222450206  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz  
Website: www.tbs.go.tz  
http://www.tbs.go.tz/images/uploads/DEAS_196_2019_HSLA_for_hot_rol led_sheet_and_c
old_rolled_sheet_Specification.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/TZA/20_1187_00_e.pdf