G/TBT/N/CHN/1315  
 
13 March 2019  
(19-1536) 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:  CHINA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Standardization Administration of China (SAC)  
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 [   ], 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):  Non-road 
mobile machinery and their diesel engines, and the machinery installed on the chassis of 
vehicles intende d for the transport of passengers or goods on roads; Compression -ignition 
internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi -diesel engines) (HS 8408); Air or 
vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods 
incorporating  a fan, whether or not fitted with filters (HS 8414); Fork -lift trucks; other 
works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment (HS 8427); Self -propelled 
bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, 
shovel loa ders, tamping machines and road rollers (HS 8429); Other moving, grading, 
levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for 
earth, minerals or ores; pile -drivers and pile -extractors; snow -ploughs and snow -blowers 
(HS 8430); Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or 
cultivation; lawn or sports -ground rollers (HS 8432); Harvesting or threshing machinery, 
including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting  or 
grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading 84.37 
(HS 8433); Electric generating sets and rotary converters (HS 8502); Transport exhaust 
emissions (ICS 13.040.50)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  National 
Standards of the P.R.C., the NO.1 Amendment of "Limits and Measurement Methods for 
Exhaust Pollutants from Diesel Engines of Non -Road Mobile Machinery (CHINA III, IV)" 
(GB20891 -2014) (1 page(s), in Chinese)  
6. Description of content:  This amendment is a supplement to the fourth phase of GB 
20891 -2014 "Limits and Measurement Methods for Exhaust Pollutants from Diesel 
Engines of Non -Road Mobile Machinery (CHINA III, IV)". It applies to the type approval 
test, inspection on confo rmity of production, inspection on emission compliance, and in -
service conformity inspection to the non -road mobile machinery and their diesel engines.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of hum an health or safety; Protection of the environment  G/TBT/N/CHN/1315  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 December 2020  
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:   
WTO/TBT National Notification and Enquiry Center of the People's Republic of China  
Tel.: +86 10 57954630/57954627  
E-mail: tbt@aqsiq.gov.cn   
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