Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Notification - Thailand - Prepainted hot-dip zinc-coated flat steel

NOTIFICATION

The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6

 

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Notifying Member: THAILAND

If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):

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Agency responsible:

Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), Ministry of Industry

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:

WTO/TBT Enquiry Point and Notification Authority

Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), Ministry of Industry

Tel: (662) 430 6831 ext. 2130

Fax: (662) 354 3041

E-mail: thaitbt@tisi.mail.go.th

Website: https://www.tisi.go.th

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Prepainted hot-dip zinc-coated flat steel (ICS 77.140.50)

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft Ministerial Regulation Prescribing Industrial Products for Prepainted Hot-Dip Zinc-Coated Flat Steel to Conform to the Standard B.E. ….; (42 page(s), in Thai)

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Description of content: The draft Ministerial Regulation mandates prepainted hot-dip zinc-coated flat steel to conform to the Thai Industrial Standards TIS 2131-25xx (20xx).

This standard specifies technical specifications, characteristics, marking and labelling, sampling, and testing requirements for prepainted hot-dip zinc-coated flat steel, coating with a substance with zinc as the main component, in the form of sheets, strips, and corrugated sheets with minimum thickness of 0.11 mm, with pitch of 76 mm and depth of 18 mm for large corrugated sheets, and pitch of 32 mm and depth of 9 mm for small corrugated sheets.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements

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Relevant documents:

ASTM D 5796-20 Standard Test Method for Measurement of Dry Film Thickness of Thin-Film Coil-Coated Systems by Destructive Means Using a Boring Device

JIS G 0404: 2014 Steel and steel products - General technical delivery requirements

JIS G 3193: 2019 Dimensions, shape, mass and permissible variations of hot rolled steel plates, sheets and strips

JIS G 3312: 2019 Pre-painted hot-dip zinc-coated steel sheet and strip

JIS K 5600-4-4: 1999 Testing methods for paints - Part 4: Visual characteristics of film Section 4: Colorimetry (Principles)

JIS K 5602: 2008 Determination of Reflectance of Solar Radiation by Paint film

JIS Z 2248: 2018 Metallic materials - Bend Test

JIS Z 8401: 2019 Rounding of numbers

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Proposed date of adoption: To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force: After 90 days following the date of its publication in the Government Gazette.

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Final date for comments: 30 days from notification

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:

WTO/TBT Enquiry Point and Notification Authority

Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), Ministry of Industry

Tel: (662) 430 6831 ext. 2130

Fax: (662) 354 3041

E-mail: thaitbt@tisi.mail.go.th

Website: https://www.tisi.go.th