G/TBT/N/CHN/1383  
16 October 2019  
(19-6700) 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:   State Administration for Market Regulation (Standardization 
Administration of the P.R.C.)  
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):  Cleaning 
Agents; Acyclic hydrocarbons (HS 2901); Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons (HS 
2903); Other organic compounds (HS 2942); Organic surface - Active agents (other than 
soap); surface - Active preparations, washing preparations (including auxiliary washing 
preparations) and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, other than those 
of heading 34.0 1 (HS 3402); Polishes and creams, for footwear, furniture, floors, 
coachwork, glass or metal, scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations 
(whether or not in the form of paper, wadding, felt, nonwovens, cellular plastics or cellular 
rubber, impregn ated, coated or covered with such preparations), excluding waxes of 
heading 34.04 (HS 3405); Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; fluxes and other 
auxiliary preparations for soldering, brazing or welding; soldering, brazing or welding 
powders and past es consisting of metal and other materials; preparations of a kind used 
as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods (HS 3810); Organic composite solvents 
and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers 
(HS 3814 ); Other products of the chemical industry (ICS 71.100.99)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  National 
Standard of the P.R.C., Limit Standard for Volatile Organic Compounds Content in 
Cleaning Agents (8 page(s), in Chinese ) 
6. Description of content:  This standard specifies the content limits of volatile organic 
compounds (VOCs) in industrial cleaning agents.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the environment; Quality 
requirements  
8. Relevant documents:  - 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  6 months after adoption  G/TBT/N/CHN/1383  
 
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  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@customs.gov.cn  
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