WORLD TRADE
G/TBT/N/TTO/98
15 March 2011
ORGANIZATION
(11-1274)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
Original: English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6
1.
Member to Agreement notifying: TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):
2.
Agency responsible: Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards
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 [ ], 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): Automotive Diesel Fuel
(ICS: 75.160.20)
5.
Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: TTS 569: 20XX Automotive Diesel Fuel - Specification (15 pages, in English).
6.
Description of content: This standard specifies the properties and test methods for
automotive diesel fuel intended for sale in Trinidad and Tobago.
This standard is applicable to diesel fuel formulated for motor vehicles, both on and off the
public roadways, equipped with compression ignition engines.
7.
Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:
Compulsory status has been recommended in order to protect the consumer or user against
danger to health or safety by ensuring a product of acceptable quality.
8.
Relevant documents: ASTM D86-10a, Standard Test Method for Distillation of Petroleum
Products at Atmospheric Pressure
ASTM D93-10, Standard Test Methods for Flash Point by Pensky-Martens Closed Cup
Tester
ASTM D95-05(2010), Standard Test Method for Water in Petroleum Products and
Bituminous Materials by Distillation
ASTM D97-09, Standard Test Method for Pour Point of Petroleum Products
ASTM D130-10, Standard Test Method for Corrosiveness to Copper from Petroleum
Products by Copper Strip Test
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ASTM D445-10, Standard Test Method for Kinematic Viscosity of Transparent and Opaque
Liquids (and Calculation of Dynamic Viscosity)
ASTM D473-07, Standard Test Method for Sediment in Crude Oils and Fuel Oils by the
Extraction Method
ASTM D482-07, Standard Test Method for Ash from Petroleum Products
ASTM D613-10a, Standard Test Method for Cetane Number of Diesel Fuel Oil
ASTM D1298-99(2005), Standard Practice for Density, Relative Density (Specific Gravity)
or API Gravity of Crude Petroleum and Liquid Petroleum Products by Hydrometer Method
ASTM D2274-10, Standard Test Method for Oxidation Stability of Distillate Fuel Oil
(Accelerated Method)
ASTM D4052-09, Standard Test Method for Density and Relative Density of Liquids by
Digital Density Meter
ASTM D4057-06, Standard Practice for Manual Sampling of Petroleum and Petroleum
Products
ASTM D4177-95(2010), Standard Practice for Automatic Sampling of Petroleum and
Petroleum Products
ASTM D4294-10, Standard Test Method for Sulfur in Petroleum Products by EnergyDispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
ASTM D4530-07, Standard Test Method for Determination of Carbon Residue (Micro
Method)
ASTM D4737-10, Standard Test Method for Calculated Cetane Index by Four Variable
Equation
ASTM D5186-03(2009), Standard Test Method for Determination of the Aromatic Content
and Polynuclear Aromatic Content of Diesel Fuels and Aviation Turbine Fuels by
Supercritical Fluid Chromatography
ASTM D5950-02(2007), Standard Test Method for Pour Point of Petroleum Products
(Automatic Tilt Method)
NOTE: The number immediately following the title of the standard indicates the year. A
number in brackets indicates the year of last approval. The letter (e) indicates an editorial
change since the last revision or approval.
Institute of Petroleum
IP 391-01, Determination of aromatic hydrocarbon types in middle distillates - High
performance liquid chromatography method with refractive index detection
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On a date to be notified by the Minister to
whom responsibility for trade and industry is
assigned, in a Notice to be published in the
Trinidad and Tobago Gazette as required by the
Standards Act.
9.
Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:
10.
Final date for comments: 17 April 2011
11.
Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers,
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards
1-2 Century Drive
Trincity Industrial Estate
Macoya
Tunapuna
Trinidad and Tobago
Telefax: (1-868) 663-4335
E-mail: ttbs@ttbs.org.tt