. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/JPN/169 
22 May 2006 
 (06-2455) 
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:   JAPAN
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 
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):   Textile goods, plastic 
manufactured goods; bathtub lid, electric appliances; electric rice cookers, TV set and 
microwave oven stipulated by the H ousehold Goods Quality Labelling Law. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Partial revision of the 
Ministerial Notification under the Household Goods Labelling Law.   
6. Description of content:    
1. Revision of label and observance matters  on the Quality Labelling Rules for Textile 
Goods; (1) to revise definition of composed fi ber in order to add pa dding of upper garments 
and coats to the classification,  (2) to revise designated terms in order to add “polylactic fiber”, (3) to revise the special way of compos ition rate labelling in order to add subjects on 
“names and composition of fiber” labelling. 
2. Revision of observance matters on the Qua lity Labelling Rules for Plastic Manufactured 
Goods;  to revise the examination method of bathtub lids. 
3. Revision of labelling and observance matters  on the Quality Labelling Rules for Electric 
appliance; (1) to add “Category”, “Ma ss of evaporated water”, “Annual energy 
consumption”, “Energy per use of a rice cooke r”, “Energy to keep rice warm per hour”, 
“Energy in time mode per hour” and “Ene rgy in standby mode per hour” to the 
classification of particulars to be declared in  Electric rice cooker, (2) to add the liquid 
crystal TV and the plasma TV to TV set cate gory , (3) to add “Category” and “TV set size” 
to the classification of particulars to be declared in TV set, (4) to add “Category”, “Annual energy consumption of microwave functi on”, “Annual energy consumption of oven 
function (limited to the those with oven func tion)”, “Annual standby energy consumption” 
and “Annual energy consumption” to the classi fication of particulars to be declared in 
Microwave oven. G/TBT/N/JPN/169 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
This revision is aimed to change the label ru les in order to respond to actual condition of 
emerging new household goods. 
8. Relevant documents:   The basic law is the Household Goods Quality Labelling Law.  
This revision will appear in “KAMPO” (Offi cial Government Gazette) when adopted. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
 
Proposed date of entry into force:    July 2006 
July 2007 
10. Final date for comments:   22 July 2006 
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:   
 Product Safety Division 
 Consumer Affairs Department  Commerce and Information Policy Bureau  Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) 
 1-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku 
 Tokyo 100-8986   JAPAN   Tel: +81-3-3501-4707  Fax: +81-3-3501-6201 
 Email:  hosaka-akira@meti.go.jp