G/TBT/N/TPKM/232  
 
12 April 2016  
(16-2040)  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 TERRITORY OF TAIWAN, PENGHU, KINMEN 
AND MATSU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible: 
Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) 
Ministry of Economic Affairs No.4, Sec. 1, Jinan Rd. 
Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100, Taiwan  
Tel.: (886-2) 2343-1904 Fax: (886-2) 2392-2402 E-mail: lucan.chang@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 [X], 5.7.1 [ ], other: 
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable): Plywood (refer to 
attachment) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Public Notice under 
the Commodity Inspection Act (9 pages, in English; 7 pages, in Chinese) 
6. Description of content: The BSMI intends to refine the current management of plywood 
products so as to maintain consistency of the requirements. The proposed measures are summarized below:  
1. To use "plywood" as the product descrip tion for related products. The current 
product names include plywood, special pl ywood, structural plywood, plywood for 
concrete-form, and scaffolding plywood, which are already subject to regulatory 
inspection. The inspection scope would be annotated in parenthesis. 
2. To apply the same inspection requirements, mainly labelling of place of origin and 
formaldehyde limit, to all plywood products, which involves the adoption of revised 
inspection standards for related products (CNS 1349:2014 for plywood, 
CNS 8058:2014 for special plywood, CNS 11671:2014 for structural plywood, CNS 8057:2012 for plywood for concrete-form and CNS 11670:2014 for scaffolding plywood).  
3. To extend the current inspection scope to cover "plywood for pallet" of which the 
inspection standard is CNS 15583:2012 for plywood for pallet. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of consumers' safety  G/TBT/N/TPKM/232 
 
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  8. Relevant documents: The Commodity Inspection Act, CNS 1349, CNS 8058, CNS 11671, 
CNS 8057, CNS 11670, CNS 15583 
9. Proposed date of adoption: To be determined 
Proposed date of entry into force: 1 January 2017   
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:  
TPKM-WTO/TBT Enquiry Point  
Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection 
Ministry of Economic Affairs 
No.4, Sec. 1, Jinan Rd. Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100, Taiwan  Tel: (886-2) 33435191 
Fax: (886-2) 23431804 
E-mail: tbtenq@bsmi.gov.tw   
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