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National standard of the People's Republic of China

Official title

National standard of the People's Republic of China, Limits and measurement methods for emissions from non-road mobile machinery and engine (CHINA V)

China notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 19 August 2026. The comment period closed on 18 October 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Non-road mobile machinery and the engines installed therein, as well as engines installed in motor vehicles or machinery that do not provide driving force for the vehicle or machinery but solely power the onboard specialized equipment

HS codes
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 8407 Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engine
    • 8408 Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine 'diesel or semi-diesel engine'
    • 8414 Air or vacuum pumps (excl. gas compound elevators and pneumatic elevators and conveyors); air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling…
    • 8427 Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment (excl. straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane)
    • 8429 Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and roadrollers
    • 8430 Moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and…
    • 8432 Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation (excl. sprayers and dusters); lawn or sports-ground rollers; parts thereof
    • 8433 Harvesting or threshing machinery, incl. straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other…
All 10 codes
  • 85 · Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles
    • 8502 Electric generating sets and rotary converters
  • 87 · Vehicles; other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
    • 8701 Tractors (other than tractors of heading 8709)
Notifying member
China
Status
Proposed measure, not in force yet
Objectives
  • Protection of human health or safety
  • Protection of the environment
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/CHN/2346

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 18 October 2026
Proposed adoption
To be determined
Proposed entry into force
To be determined

How to comment

The comment period closed on 18 October 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/CHN/2346; it can take them up with China.

Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)

What the notification says

This standard specifies the emission limits and measurement methods for pollutants and carbon dioxide (CO₂) from non-road mobile machinery (including hybrid machinery) and their engines, as well as secondary engines installed on motor vehicles. It applies to type approval, off-production-line inspection, production conformity inspection, and in-service conformity inspection for non-road mobile machinery and their engines.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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