JPN/708
WTO/TBT
JP Japan
  • 73 - Articles of iron or steel
  • 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
2021-11-01
2021-09-07

Gas/liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) equipment and appliances (HS7321.11/HS8419.11); Stoves, ranges, grates, cookers, incl. those with subsidiary boilers for central heating, barbecues, braziers, gas rings, plate warmers and similar non-electric domestic appliances, and parts thereof of iron or steel (excl. boilers and radiators for central heating, geysers and hot water cylinders) (HS 7321); Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment whether or not electrically heated (excl. furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling (excl. those used for domestic purposes); instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric; parts thereof (HS 8419)

Revisions to the operational rules under the "Gas Business Act" and the "Act on the Securing of Safety and the Optimization of Transaction of Liquefied Petroleum Gas" (2 page(s), in English)

1.    The necessary interpretations regarding safety performance for automatic functions of gas/LPG equipment and appliances will be added to the operational rules.

2.    Some JIS standards referenced in the operational rules will be revised in accordance with the latest JIS standards.