G/TBT/N/TPKM/368  
 
1 March 2019  
(19-1187) 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:  
The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection  
Ministry of Economic Affairs  
4, Chinan Road, Section 1  
Taipei City 100, Taiwan  
Tel.: (886 -2) 2343 -4520  
Fax: (886 -2) 2392 -2402  
E-mail: hn.chen@bsmi.gov.tw   
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 [  ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Suitcases  
Trunks, suit -cases, vanity -cases, executive -cases, brief -cases, school satchels, spectacle 
cases, binocu lar cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and 
similar containers; travelling -bags, insulated food or beverage 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 
covere d with such materials or with paper. (HS 4202). Leather products (ICS 59.140.35).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Proposal for 
Amendment to Legal Inspection of Suitcases (1 page(s), in English; 2 page(s), in Chinese)   
6. Description of content: The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection is proposing 
to adopt the most recent version of standard, CNS 15331 "Evaluation criteria for bags, 
cases and trunks, " published on 14 December 2018, as the inspection standard fo r 
suitcases. In this revised version, among all the changes, DMP and DEP are deleted from 
the scope of restricted phthalates, which reduces the number of restricted phthalates 
from 8 to 6 (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DINP, DIDP, and DNOP) and the sum of the total mixt ure 
of them cannot be over 0.1% (wt/wt).  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of human health or safety  G/TBT/N/TPKM/368  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• The Commodity Inspection Act, CNS 15331  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 1 July 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force: 1 July 2019  
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 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 -1813 
Fax: (886 -2) 2343 -1804 
E-mail: tbtenq@bsmi.gov.tw  
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