. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/PHL/26
22 October 2002
(02-5780)
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:   PHILIPPINES
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Bureau of Product Standards, Department of Trade and 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):   Hot-dip aluminum/zinc-
coated steel sheet
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Philippine
National Standard (DPNS) 1993:2002 – Continuous hot-dip aluminum/zinc-coated steel
sheet of commercial, drawing and structural qualities  (23 pages, English)
6. Description of content:   This draft Philippine National Standard specifies the
characteristics of steel of commercial, lock-forming and structural qualities coated by a
continuous hot-dip aluminum/zinc alloy coating process.  The aluminum/zinc alloycomposition by mass in nominally 55% aluminum, 1.6% silicon and the balance zinc.  The
product is intended for applications where the corrosion characteristics of aluminum
coupled with those of zinc are desired.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
This draft Philippine National Standard is a modified adoption of with International
Standard ISO 9364:2003, Continuous hot-dip aluminum/zinc-coated steel sheet of
commercial, lock-forming and structural qualities.  This draft was prepared for adoption bythe Bureau of Product Standards’ Technical Committee on Flat Steel Products (BPS/TC 64).
In this draft standard, certain modifications of the original ISO 9364 has been made due to
climatic and geographic requirements of the local condition and the particular needs of
galvanizing industry.  These technical deviations and additional information have been
added directly to the clauses to which they are referred.
8. Relevant documents:   The following standards contain provisions which through reference
in this text, constitute provisions of this standard.  At the time of publication, the editions
indicated were valid.  All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based
on these standards are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recenteditions of the standards indicated below.G/TBT/N/PHL/26
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ISO 1460:1992, Metallic coatings – Hot-dip galvanized coatings on ferrous materials –
Determination of the mass per unit area – Gravimetric method
ISO 2178:1982, Non-magnetic coatings on magnetic substrates – Measurement of coating
thickness – Magnetic method
ISO 3497:1990, Metallic coatings – Measurement of coating thickness – X-ray
spectrometric methods
PNS ISO 6892:1998, Metallic materials – Tensile testing
PNS 1468:1996/ISO 7438:1985, Metallic materials – Bend test
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }Fifteen (15) days after publication in theOfficial Gazette or newspapers of general
circulation
10. Final date for comments:   17 December 2002
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:
Bureau of Product Standards, WTO/TBT Enquiry Point, Department of Trade and Industry,
361 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City, Metro Manila, PhilippinesTel.: (63 2) 890-5227; Fax:  (63 2) 890-5131;  E-mail:  bps@dti.dti.gov.ph