G/TBT/N/TPKM/166  
 
8 July 2014  
(14-3891)  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: THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITOR Y OF TAIWAN, PENGHU, KINMEN 
AND MATSU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):    
2. Agency responsible:  
The Bureau of Standards, Metr ology and Inspection (BSMI) 
Ministry of Economic Affairs 4, Chinan Road, Section 1 
Taipei City 100 
Taiwan Tel.: (886-2) 2343-4517 Fax: (886-2) 2392-2402 
E-mail: cp.tsai@bsmi.gov.tw  
Name and address (including telephon e 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 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, wher e applicable): Textile products (refer 
to attachment) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document: Announcement for 
Amendment to Legal Inspection of Textile Products (Babies garments and clothing 
accessories, Towels, Sweaters, Garments, Swim wear, Underwear, Hosiery and Bedding), (15 
pages, in English) 
6. Description of content: The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) is 
very concerned about the safety of textiles, no matter where they might be manufactured. To protect consumer rights and interests, all textiles for babies' garments and clothing 
accessories and part of textiles with direct contact to skin, such as towel, bedding, and 
underwear, whether domestically produced or imported from abroad, must be in compliance with the inspection requirements before they are released from the production 
premises or the Customs. Part of textiles wi th direct contact to skin, such as garments, 
sweaters, swimwear, and hosiery, must be in compliance with the inspection requirements before they are released into the market. The main measure of revised CNS 15290 increases the requirements with limitation of Nonylphenolethoxylates (NPEO) and 
Nonylphenol (NP) less than 1,000 mg/kg for children below the age of 12 in Article 4.7. 
Meanwhile, the measure increases the inspection scope of bed linen commodities, including bed linen textiles in HS Code 6302 and blankets and travelling rugs in HS Code 
6301, whether domestically produced or imported from abroad, must be in compliance 
with the inspection requirements before they are released from the production premises or the Customs.  G/TBT/N/TPKM/166 
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Consumer protection  
8. Relevant documents:  The Commodity Inspection Act, CNS 15290, Labelling Criteria for 
Apparel And Garments, Labelling Criteria for Textiles 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   3 March 2014 
Proposed date of entry into force:   1 July 2014   
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from the date of notification 
11. Texts available from: Nati onal enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:   
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point 
The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection Ministry of Economic Affairs 
4, Chinan Road, Section 1 
Taipei City 100 Taiwan 
Tel.: (886-2) 2343-1801 
Fax: (886-2) 2343-1804 E-mail:  tbtenq@bsmi.gov.tw  
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