China notified Technical Specifications for Safety of Power-driven Vehicles Operating on Roads

Standardization Administration of China (SAC) notified standard specifies the basic technical requirements related to safety operating of completed vehicles, main assemblies and safety protection devices, etc. of power-driven vehicles, as well as the additional requirements for fire engines, ambulances, wreckers, police vehicles and vehicles for handicapped driving.

Products covered : Road vehicles except trams. Tractors (other than tractors of heading 87.09). (HS 8701), Motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, including the driver. (HS 8702), Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars. (HS 8703), Motor vehicles for the transport of goods. (HS 8704), Special purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, breakdown lorries (wreckers), crane lorries (mobile cranes), fire fighting vehicles, concrete mixer lorries (concrete-mixers), road sweeper lorries (road sweepers), spraying lorries (spraying vehicles), mobile workshops, mobile radiological units). (HS 8705), Chassis fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05. (HS 8706), Bodies (including cabs), for the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05. (HS 8707), Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05. (HS 8708), Works trucks, self-propelled, not fitted with lifting or handling equipment, of the type used in factories, warehouses, dock areas or airports for short distance transport of goods; tractors of the type used on railway station platforms; parts of the foregoing vehicles. (HS 8709). Road vehicles in general (ICS 43.020).

Proposed date of adoption : 90 days after circulation by the WTO Secretariat

Proposed date of entry into force : 1 January 2018

Final date for comments : 60 days after circulation by WTO Secretariat

If the Proposal/Notification/Regulation will affect your International Business please send us your representation with facts and figures , so that these can be taken up suitably.