./.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/THA/25
22 May 2001
(01-2586)
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:   THAILAND
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), Ministry of 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):   Food products in general
HS Chapter 1903, ICS: 67.040
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   TIS 52-2516(1973)
Tapioca Products (7 pages, available in English language)
6. Description of content:   Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI) has proposed to
withdraw TIS 52-2516(1973) as a mandatory standard.  This standard covers tapioca
products prepared from dehydrated tapioca in either of fibre, piece, sheet, chunk, bar or
pellet styles excluding tapioca starch or crude tapioca.  Specifies requirements for starch,sand, crude fibre, moisture content and free from foreign materials, abnormal odour and
colour, fermentation, rottenness, moulds or insects.  Includes packaging, marking, sampling
and analysis.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To reduce the repeatability of inspection and control
8. Relevant documents:
(1) Reference document:
- Regulation  No. 288/67/EEC June 8, 1967 : The starch content of compound
foodstuffs, the starch and ash content of bran s and the denaturing of flour of manioc and
other roots. The European Economic Community, Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
- IS : 4706-1968 Method of test for edible starches, Indian Standards Institution
(2)  Publication in which the notification is published when adopted:
       - Government GazetteG/TBT/N/THA/25
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9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:14 November 2000
To be determined
10. Final date for comments:   60 days from the WTO circulation date
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:           