G/TBT/N/UGA/1673  
4 October 2022  
(22-7480) 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  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
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 [  ], 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, brief -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, purses, 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); Leather products (ICS code(s): 59.140.35)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS 2596: 
2022, T ravel bags — Specification, First Edition; (18 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, sampling 
and test methods for travel bags (including suitcases).  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. KS 2746 -1_2017, Travel bags -Specification Part 1: Suitcase type of travel bags  G/TBT/N/UGA/1673  
 
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  2. IS 8518: 1977, Suitcase air travel  
3. EAS 223, Zippers – Specification  
4. ISO 105 -B02, Textiles — Tests for colour fastness — Part B02: Colour fastness to 
artificial light: Xenon arc fading lamp test  
5. ISO 105 -B04, Textiles — Tests for colour fastness — Part B04: Colour fastness to 
artificial weathering: Xenon arc fading lamp test  
6. ISO 105 -E01, Textiles — Tests for colour fastness — Part E01: Colour fastness to 
water  
7. ISO 105 -E04, Textiles — Tests for colour fastness — Part E04: Colour fastness to 
perspiration  
8. ISO 105 -E07, Textiles — Tests for colour fastness — Part E07: Colour fastness to 
spotting: Water  
9. ISO 105 -X12, Textiles — Tests for colour fastness — Part X12: Colour fastness to 
rubbing  
10. ISO 12947 -2, Textiles — Determination of the abrasion resistance of fabrics by 
the Martindale method — Part 2: Determination of specimen breakdown  
11. ISO 13934 -1, Textiles — Tensile properties of fabrics — Part 1: Determination of 
maximum force and elongation at maximum force using the strip meth od 
12. ISO 13936 -1, Textiles — Determination of the slippage resistance of yarns at a 
seam in woven fabrics — Part 1: Fixed seam opening method  
13. ISO 13936 -2, Textiles — Determination of the slippage resistance of yarns at a 
seam in woven fabrics — Part 2: Fixed  load method  
14. ISO 13937 -1, Textiles — Tear properties of fabrics — Part 1: Determination of 
tear force using ballistic pendulum method (Elmendorf)  
15. ISO 13938 -1, Textiles — Bursting properties of fabrics — Part 1: Hydraulic method 
for determination of burstin g strength and bursting distension  
16. ISO 13938 -2, Textiles — Bursting properties of fabrics — Part 2: Pneumatic 
method for determination of bursting strength and bursting distension  
17. ISO 14362 -1, Textiles — Methods for determination of certain aromatic amines  
derived from azo colorants — Part 1: Detection of the use of certain azo colorants 
accessible with and without extracting the fibres  
18. ISO 14362 -3, Textiles — Methods for determination of certain aromatic amines 
derived from azo colorants — Part 3: Detectio n of the use of certain azo colorants, 
which may release 4 -aminoazobenzene  
19. ISO 16373 -1, Textiles — Dyestuffs — Part 1: General principles of testing coloured 
textiles for dyestuff identification  
20. ISO 16373 -2, Textiles — Dyestuffs — Part 2: General method fo r the 
determination of extractable dyestuffs including allergenic and carcinogenic 
dyestuffs (method using pyridine -water)  
21. ISO 16373 -3, Textiles — Dyestuffs — Part 3: Method for determination of certain 
carcinogenic dyestuffs (method using triethylamine/me thanol)  
22. ISO 22198, Textiles — Fabrics — Determination of width and length  
23. ISO 22958, Textiles — Water resistance — Rain tests: exposure to a horizontal 
water spray  
24. ISO 3377 -1, Leather — Physical and mechanical tests — Determination of tear 
load — Part 1: S ingle edge tear  
25. ISO 3377 -2, Leather — Physical and mechanical tests — Determination of tear 
load — Part 2: Double edge tear  G/TBT/N/UGA/1673  
 
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  26. ISO 3758, Textiles — Care labelling code using symbols  
27. ISO 3759, Textiles — Preparation, marking and measuring of fabric specimens 
and garments in tests for determination of dimensional change  
28. ISO 3801, Textiles — Woven fabrics — Determination of mass per unit length and 
mass per unit area  
29. ISO 5077, Textiles — Determination of dimensional change in washing and drying  
30. ISO 6330, Textiles — Domestic washing and drying procedures for textile testing  
31. ISO 6940, Textile fabrics — Burning behaviour — Determination of ease of ignition 
of vertically oriented specimens  
32. ISO 811, Textiles — Determination of resistance to water penetration — 
Hydrostatic pressure test  
33. US 629, Leather and fibre board – Measurement of thickness  
34. US ISO 11640, Leather — Tests for colour fastness — Colour fastness to cycles of 
to-and-fro rubbing  
35. US ISO 1833 (all parts), Textiles — Quantitative chemical analysis  
36. US ISO 3378, Leather — Physical and mechanical tests — Determination of 
resistance to grain cracking and grain crack index  
37. US ISO 3380, Leather — Physical and mechanical tests — Determination of 
shrinkage temperature up to 100 °C  
38. US ISO 4045, Leather — Chemica l tests — Determination of pH and difference 
figure  
39. US ISO 6941, Textile fabrics — Burning behaviour — Measurement of flame 
spread properties of vertically oriented specimens  
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:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
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