1Proposal for legal inspection of gas  cylinders for outdoor cookers  
 
By the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI), Ministry of Economic Affairs 
 
8 February 2010 
 
Proposed date of implementation:   
1 July 2010 
 
Products (HS/CCCN codes) covered and their applicable inspection standards: 
C.C.C. Code (the first 
6 digits being the 
same as HS Code) Description of Goods Inspection Standards 
2711.13.00.00-1C Liquefied butane fuel(gas cylinders for 
outdoor cookers) The TPKM Chinese National Standard CNS 15230 'Non-refillable 
metallic gas canisters for portable 
liquefied petroleum gas' with the 
exception of section 4.8 (published 
date: 17 January 2009).  
2711.19.10.00-3C Petroleum gases fuel in the liquefied state [mixed liquefied propane and 
butane] (gas cylinders for outdoor 
cookers) Same as above. 
2901.10.20.00-0C  Butane fuel(gas cylinders for outdoor cookers) Same as above. 
 
Other inspection requirements: 
1. The gas cylinders for outdoor cookers will be subject to mandatory inspection from 1 July 
2010, and the above-mentioned produc ts shall not be imported into  or marketed within the 
TPKM's territory unless they have been certified and inspected by the BSMI. The 
applicable conformity assessment procedur e is Type-approved Batch Inspection(TABI) 
Scheme. The importers or domestic manufactur ers must submit applications to the BSMI 
for Type-approval of their products, and shall fi le an inspection application to the BSMI 
before the products are imported or released from the production premises.  
2. The term of validity of a type  approval certificate for the pr oduct listed in the Table is 3 
years. The type approval certificate issued be fore 1 July 2010 will be valid through 30 
June 30 2013. 
3. For products listed in the Table, the import re gulation code in the “C lassification of Import 
& Export Commodities of the Republic of China” is assigned as C02.  
4. The application for type test of the product shall be submitted to the BSMI’s Hsinchu 
Branch.  
5. The application for type approval of the pr oduct shall be submitted to the BSMI or its 
branches with jurisdiction over particular applicants. 
6. The timeframe for completing the type appr oval of the product listed in the Table is 14 
working days, including the review and evalua tion processes. The time period of waiting 
for samples and/or necessary documents for review and evaluation is excluded. Another 14 
working days will be needed to conduct sample testing. 
7. The inspection application shal l be submitted to the BSMI or its branches with jurisdiction 
over particular applicants. 
8. The timeframe for completing the document review or random examination for batch 
inspection application is 3 working days. 
9. The relevant statutory fees for the product listed in the Table shall be charged in 
accordance with the latest version of  “R egulations Governing Fees for Commodity 
Inspection”.   210.The inspection standards shall be the latest version of standards as of the date the public 
notice of this measure. When the applicable standards are revised or amended, the date of 
applying these revised or amended standa rds for inspection shall be decided and 
announced by the BSMI.   
11.Applicants shall submit technical documents  for type test in accordance with BSMI 
requirements.   
12.The fees for type test shall be collected according to the fee schedule of the testing 
laboratory.