WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/IND/32 
5 February 2007 
 (07-0485) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   
INDIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   
Bureau of Indian Standards 
9, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg 
New Delhi -110 002 
www.bis.org.in 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
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):   ICS:  77.140, 77.080 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   This Order may be 
called the Steel and Steel Products (Quality C ontrol) Order, 2006 (5 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:   This order aims at ensuring conformity of steel and steel products 
to specified Indian Standards on consideration of minimizing power losses, safety and consumer health.  The details on the ground on which a specified Indian Standard is 
proposed to be brought under mandatory certification are indicated in the last column of the table under Question No 8. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer health and safety G/TBT/N/IND/32 
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8. 
Relevant documents:    
 
1.   FOR POWER DISTRIBUTION 
IS NO TITLE APPLICATION JUSTIFICATION 
648 Non oriented 
electrical steel sheets 
and strips for magnetic circuits  Electrical static and 
rotational machines Minimizing power losses 
3024 Grain oriented 
electrical steel sheets and strips For transformer 
cores Minimizing Power Losses 
15391 Cold rolled Non-
oriented electrical steel sheet and strip for semi-processed type - specification  Construction of 
magnetic circuits Minimizing Power Losses 
 
2.  FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY 
IS NO TITLE APPLICATION JUSTIFICATION 
2002 Steel plates for 
pressure vessels for intermediate and high temperature service 
including boilers  Boilers, heat 
exchangers and pressure vessels Safety 
2041 Steel plates for 
pressure vessels used at moderate and low temperature -do- -do- 
 
3. FOR INFRASTRUCTURE (INCLUDING RAILWAYS) AND 
CONSTRUCTIONAL STEEL  
IS NO TITLE APPLICATION JUSTIFICATION 
277 Galvanized steel 
sheets (plain and corrugated)  Roofing and panelling Safety and well being of 
common consumer in economically weaker 
housing segment 
1786 Specification for high 
strength deformed steel bars and wires for concrete 
reinforcement For structural 
applications including  reinforcements Safety of concrete 
structures including common consumers’ residential buildings 
2062 
 Steel for general 
structural purposes -do- -do-  
13620 Specification for 
fusion bonded epoxy coated reinforcing 
bars -do- -do- 
1977 Low tensile structural 
steels -do- -do-  G/TBT/N/IND/32 
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  1785 
(Pt 1) Specification for 
plain hard-drawn steel wire for prestressed concrete; Part 1 Cold-drawn 
stress relieved wire  -do- Safety in Bridges, Fly-
overs, culverts,  and other structures under dynamic loads. 
1785 
(Pt 2) Specification for 
plain hard-drawn steel wire for prestressed concrete; 
Part 1 Cold-drawn 
stress relieved wire  -do- -do- 
6003 Specification for 
indented wire for prestressed concrete For constructional 
purpose  -do- 
6006 Specification for 
uncoated stress relieved strand for prestressed concrete -do- -do- 
14268 Specification for 
uncoated stress 
relieved low 
relaxation seven ply strand for prestressed concrete  -do- 
2830 Carbon steel cast 
billet ingots, billets, 
blooms and slabs or re-rolling into  steel for general structural  purposes Raw material for 
structural steel As raw material to 
Structural Steel products 
proposed for mandatory  certification   
2831 Carbon steel cast 
billet ingots, billets, 
blooms and slabs for re-rolling into steel for re-rolling into low tensile structural  
steel -do- -do- 
 
4.   FOR STORAGE/COOKING OF FOOD PRODUCTS
 
IS NO TITLE APPLICATION JUSTIFICATION 
1993 Single cold reduced 
tinplate and single 
cold reduced 
blackplate-electrolytic and hot dipped tinplate sheet and blackplate sheet  Container for food 
product Consumers’ safety against 
substandard tin-plated 
containers used in 
packaging food products. G/TBT/N/IND/32 
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  9025 Single cold reduced 
tinplate and single cold reduced blackplate-electrolytic tinplate 
coil and blackplate 
coil for subsequent cutting into sheet form  Container for food 
product -do- 
13954 Double cold reduced 
electrolytic tinplate 
sheet  -do- -do- 
13955 Double cold reduced 
electrolytic tinplate 
coil for subsequent cutting into sheets -do- -do- 
 
 
The above standards can be obtained from:  
Bureau of Indian Standards 
Manak Bhawan 
9 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg New Delhi- 110 002 
 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }Yet to be decided 
10. Final date for comments:   15 March 2007 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Bureau of Indian Standards 
Manak Bhawan 9 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg 
New Delhi- 110 002 
Email:  info@bis.org.in 
Website: www.bis.org.in