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WTO notification · TBT

VietnamProposed measure, open for comments

Pumps; for liquids – Vietnam

Official title

Draft National Technical Regulation on Petroleum Retail Service Stations

Vietnam notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 8 October 2026. Comments are open until 7 December 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Petroleum retail service stations and equipment, systems and facilities used for the storage and dispensing of petroleum products, including underground petroleum storage tanks, fuel piping systems, fuel dispensers, vapor recovery systems, electrical equipment, fire prevention and firefighting equip

HS codes
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 841311 Pumps fitted or designed to be fitted with a measuring device, for dispensing fuel or lubricants, of the type used in filling stations or in garages
Notifying member
Vietnam(Viet Nam)
Status
Proposed measure, open for comments
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/VNM/454

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Open until 7 December 2026
Proposed adoption
December 2026
Proposed entry into force
July 2027

How to comment

Comments on a notification go from government to government. If this measure affects your exports, send your comments to your country's WTO TBT enquiry point before 7 December 2026, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/VNM/454 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to Vietnam.

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What the notification says

The draft National Technical Regulation prescribes technical requirements for the design, construction, installation, modification, expansion, conversion, inspection, testing, commissioning and safe operation of petroleum retail service stations located on land and on water. The draft covers, among others: - Classification of petroleum retail service stations according to total storage capacity and levels of technical safety assurance; - General requirements for the layout and operation of service stations; - Hazardous area classification and requirements for equipment installed or used in hazardous areas; - Storage tanks for petroleum products, including requirements for double-wall tanks or equivalent secondary containment for newly installed or replaced tanks under specified safety levels; - Fuel piping systems, including underground and above-ground piping, leak detection and emergency shut-off arrangements; - Fuel dispensers and fuel dispensing systems; - Electrical installations, grounding, lightning protection and static electricity control; - Fire prevention and firefighting equipment and emergency response arrangements; - Water supply, drainage, wastewater and environmental protection requirements; - Stage I and Stage II vapor recovery systems; - Requirements for electric vehicle charging stations, battery swapping stations, battery energy storage systems and solar photovoltaic systems installed at petroleum retail service stations; - Minimum safety distances…

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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