The latest bulletin lists a total of 78 notifications covering various sectors such as agriculture, chemical technology, clothing industry, construction materials and buildings, domestic and commercial equipment, electrical engineering, environment health protection and safety, fluid systems and components for general use, food technology, healthcare technology, manufacturing engineering, metallurgy, petroleum and related technologies, road vehicles engineering, services and telecommunications, audio, and video engineering. The respective issuing economies and the final date of comments are provided below:

Agriculture

1. Carcinogens, germ cell mutagens or reproductive toxicants, European Union, 21 January 2025
2. Natural honey, Tanzania, 21 January 2025
3. Treated seed – Addendum, New Zealand, 31 March 2025
4. Nuts and oilseed crops, Kenya, 18 January 2025
5. Cigarette tobacco products – Addendum, Thailand, deadline not indicated
6. Feed additives - Isopropyl ester of 2 - hydroxy -4 - (metylthio) butanoic acid, Japan, deadline not indicated
7. Nicotine pouches without tobacco – Revision, Finland, 25 January 2025
8. Protection against unauthorized access to unit packet of tobacco products, Ukraine, 25 January 2025

Chemical Technology

1. Biocidal products, European Union, deadline not indicated
2. Certain per - and polyfluoroalkyl substances – Addendum, United States, 30 December 2024
3. Household detergents, Jordan, 20 January 2025
4. Calcium carbonate for treatment of water intended for human consumption, Israel, 27 January 2025

Clothing Industry

1. Footwear – Addendum, Plurination al State of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, deadline not indicated

Construction Materials and Buildings

1. Manufactured stone, Jordan, 20 December 2024

Domestic and Commercial Equipment

1. Laundry detergents containing nonylphenol ethoxylates – Addendum, United States, deadline not indicated
2. Soft infant and toddler carriers – Addendum, United States, 20 December 2024
3. Laundry detergents containing nonylphenol ethoxylates – Addendum, United States, deadline not indicated
4. Reclined cradles – Addendum, Israel, deadline not indicated
5. Infant swings – Addendum, Israel, deadline not indicated
6. Electric clothes washing machines with a capacity up to 25 kg, Qatar, 27 January 2025
7. Household refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator - freezers having a capacity of not more than 1,500 liters, Qatar, 26 January 2025

Electrical Engineering

1. Flashlight, India, 12 January 2025
2. Hot rolled steel angles for assembly of electric power transmission towers – Addendum, Brazil, deadline not indicated
3. Small, medium and large power transformers, Ukraine, 20 January 2025
4. External power supplies, European Union, 18 January 2025
5. Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors, New Zealand, 18 January 2025

Environment Health Protection and Safety

1. Tents – Addendum, Canada, deadline not indicated
2. Public safety communications in the 4.9 GHz Band – Addendum, United States, deadline not indicated
3. Vehicle safety standards: pedestrian head protection - Addendum, United States, 18 December 2024
4. Neck floats, United States, 21 January 2025
5. Maximum permissible values of physical, chemical and microbiological parameters for drinking water, Nicaragua, 15 January 2025
6. Decabromodiphenyl ether and phenol, isopropylated phosphate – Addendum, United States, deadline not indicated
7. Toxic substances control act, United States, 21 January 2025
8. Air quality in general – Addendum, United States, deadline not indicated
9. Nonvolatile particulate matter from aircraft engines – Addendum, United States of America, deadline not indicated
10. Firefighting foams containing per – and polyfluoroalkyl substances, European Union, 25 January 2025
11. Labelling of footwear, leather goods, travel goods and similar items – Addendum, Plurination al State of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, deadliine not indicated

Fluid Systems and Components for General Use

1. Flexible tubes, pipes and hoses, of plastics, Uganda, 13 January 2024
2. Pre -insulated flexible pipe systems, Uganda, 13 January 2024
3. Industrial gas facilities, United Arab Emirates, 18 January 2025

Food Technology

1. Alcoholic beverages, Mozambique, 21 January 2025
2. Alcoholic beverages – Addendum, Thailand, deadline not indicated
3. Food flavourings and certain food ingredients with flavouring properties, Turkiye, 21 January 2025
4. Prepackaged fruits or vegetables packaged in non-retail containers – Addendum, Canada, deadline not indicated
5. Bebidas alcohólicas - Addendum, Chile, deadline not indicated
6. Starches in very high moisture cheeses – Addendum, Brazil, deadline not indicated
7. Nutrition labelling – Addendum, Canada, deadline not indicated
8. Canola (Rapeseed) seeds for oil extraction, Kenya, 18 January 2025
9. Linseed (Flaxseed), Kenya, 18 January 2025
10. Sunflower seeds for oil extraction, Kenya, 18 January 2025
11. Mutura, Kenya, 18 January 2025
12. Boerewors, Kenya, 18 January 2025
13. Castor seed for oil extraction, Kenya, 18 January 2025
14. Khoa milk product, Kenya, 18 January 2025
15. Good Choice symbol for easier identification of a food with a beneficial nutritional composition, Slovenia, 18 January 2025
16. Infant formula and follow - on formula – Addendum, Turkiye, 01 January 2025

Healthcare Technology

1. Pharmaceutical products – Addendum, Brazil, deadline not indicated
2. Industrialized medicines for human use – Addendum, Brazil, deadline not indicated
3. Health surveillance – Addendum, Brazil, deadline not indicated
4. Health care technology – Addendum, Brazil, deadline not indicated
5. Pharmaceuticals, medical devices and healthcare products, Peru, 21 January 2024
6. In vitro diagnostic medical devices – Addendum, Switzerland, deadline not indicated
7. Medicinal finished products and medicinal ingredients, Vietnam, 20 January 2025
8. Medicines, Ukraine, 18 January 2025
9. Medicines, Ukraine, 18 January 2025
10. Medical devices, Ukraine, 18 January 2025
11. Digital medical products, Republic of Korea, 09 December 2024
12. Digital medical products, Republic of Korea, 09 Deceber 2024

Manufacturing Engineering

1. Facilities for exploratory drilling sites for CO2 storage – Addendum, Japan, deadline not indicated

Metallurgy

1. Steel wire rod, Maroc, 20 December 2024
2. Stainless steel pipes and tubes, India, deadline not indicated

Petroleum and Related Technologies

1. Gas appliances and equipment, Maroc, 19 December 2025

Road Vehicles Engineering

1. Speed measuring device conformity: radar, United States of America

Services

1. Automatic emergency braking systems for light vehicles – Addendum, United States, deadline not indicated
2. General service lamps – Revision, United States, 26 December 2024

Telecommunications, Audio, and Video Engineering

1. Digital radio transmitter – Addendum, Thailand, deadline not indicated
2. Approval for the use of SNI conformity marks, Indonesia, 17 January 2025
3. SNI conformity marks and SCCI marks or SNI conformity marks and CC marks, Indonesia, 17 January 2025
4. Charging and data transmission methods for broadcasting and communicatio n equipment, including mobile and smart devices – Addendum, Republic of Korea, deadline not indicated

Please submit your comments to the DTI Bureau of Philippine Standards (BPS) thru email at bps@dti.gov.ph and copy the DTI Export Marketing Bureau (exports@dti.gov.ph). The BPS serves as the Philippines’ National Enquiry Point (NEP) and the National Notification Authority (NNA) for the WTO-TBT Agreement.