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Title

Consultation document on Proposal to Regulate and Phase Down Hydrofluorocarbons for Implementation of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol

Objective

Protection of the environment (TBT)

Product Covered

Air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment, and fire suppression system, that contains or is designed to operate on any hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as listed below:Room air-conditioner (split type or window type, with rated cooling capacity Household refrigerator, freezer and refrigerator combined with freezer [HS code: 84181000, 84182100, 84182900]Commercial refrigeration - stand-alone system [HS code: 84183000, 84184000, 84185000, 84762100, 84768100, 84186900, 85167920]Commercial refrigeration - condensing unit [HS code: 84189900]Commercial refrigeration – supermarket system [HS code: 84186900]Cold storage warehouse system [HS code: 84186900]Air-cooled chiller [HS code: 84198900]Water-cooled chiller [HS code: 84198900]Motor vehicle air-conditioning - private car [HS code: 87032140, 87032160, 87032240, 87032260, 87032340, 87032360, 87032440, 87032460, 87033140, 87033160, 87033240, 87033260, 87033340, 87033360, 87034040, 87034060, 87035040, 87035060, 87036040, 87036060, 87037040, 87037060, 87038000, 87039000]Fire suppression system [HS code: 84241000, 84248900]

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841510 - Air conditioning machines designed to be fixed to a window, wall, ceiling or floor, self-contained or "split-system"; 870390 - Motor cars and other vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with engines other than internal combustion piston engine or electric motor (excl. vehicles for the transport of persons on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10); 870380 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with only electric motor for propulsion (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10); 870370 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with both diesel engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion, capable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10); 870360 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with both spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion, capable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10); 870350 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with both diesel engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow, other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10 and plug-in hybrids); 870340 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with both spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow, other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10 and plug-in hybrids); 87033 - - Other vehicles, with only compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi-diesel):; 87032 - - Other vehicles, with only spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine:; 841989 - Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, n.e.s. (excl. machinery used for domestic purposes and furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514); 841899 - Parts of refrigerating or freezing equipment and heat pumps, n.e.s.; 851679 - Electro-thermic appliances, for domestic use (excl. hairdressing appliances and hand dryers, space-heating and soil-heating apparatus, water heaters, immersion heaters, smoothing irons, microwave ovens, ovens, cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers, roasters, coffee makers, tea makers and toasters); 841869 - Refrigerating or freezing equipment (excl. refrigerating and freezing furniture); 847681 - Automatic goods-vending machines incorporating heating or refrigerating devices (excl. automatic beverage-vending machines); 847621 - Automatic beverage-vending machines incorporating heating or refrigerating devices; 841850 - Furniture "chests, cabinets, display counters, show-cases and the like" for storage and display, incorporating refrigerating or freezing equipment (excl. combined refrigerator-freezers with separate external doors, household refrigerators and freezers of the chest type of a capacity <= 800 l or of the upright type of a capacity <= 900 l); 841840 - Freezers of the upright type, of a capacity <= 900 l; 841830 - Freezers of the chest type, of a capacity <= 800 l; 84182 - - Refrigerators, household type:; 841810 - Combined refrigerator-freezers, with separate external doors or drawers, or combinations thereof; 841582 - Air conditioning machines incorporating a refrigerating unit but without a valve for reversal of the cooling-heat cycle (excl. of a kind used for persons in motor vehicles, and self-contained or "split-system" window or wall air conditioning machines); 841581 - Air conditioning machines incorporating a refrigerating unit and a valve for reversal of the cooling-heat cycle "reversible heat pumps" (excl. of a kind used for persons in motor vehicles and self-contained or "split-system" window or wall air conditioning machines); 842410 - Fire extinguishers, whether or not charged; 842489 - Mechanical appliances, whether or not hand-operated, for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders, n.e.s.

ICSCODE

23.120 - Ventilators. Fans. Air-conditioners; 27.200 - Refrigerating technology

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D06. Treaties

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Description

The proposal sets out different control strategies which facilitates HFC phasedown, and supports an orderly and smooth transition to the use of low Global Warming Potential (GWP) alternatives.  One of the strategies is to introduce a new regulation to prohibit the import, manufacture, supply and sale of those equipment and products using HFCs with GWP greater than the prescribed limit.

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