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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-02092024-256823
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (ii)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 3386] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2024/BHADRA 8, 1946
MINISTRY OF STEEL
ORDER
New Delhi, the 29th August, 2024.
S.O. 3716(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 16 read with section 17 and sub-section (3) of section 25 of the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 (11 of 2016) (hereinafter referred to as the said Act) and in supersession of the Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) Order, 2024, published vide notification number S.O. 574(E), dated the 5th February, 2024 in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (ii), dated the 8th February, 2024, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government being of the opinion that it is necessary to do so in the public interest and after consulting the Bureau of Indian Standards, hereby makes the following Order, namely:-
1. Short title and commencement.– (1) This Order may be called the Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) Order, 2024.
(2) Save as otherwise provided in this Order, it shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Application.– This Order shall apply to steel and steel products specified in column (3) of Schedule 1 and goods or articles specified in column (2) of Schedule 2, annexed to this Order, except steel and steel products manufactured domestically for export which conform to any other specification required by a foreign buyer.
3. Conformity to Standards and essential requirements.– (1) Every steel and steel product specified in column (3) of Schedule 1 shall conform to the corresponding Indian Standards specified in column (2) of the said Schedule with effect from the dates specified in column (5) thereof.
(2) Every steel and steel products specified in column (3) of Schedule 1 shall be accompanied with a Test Certificate bearing the Standard Mark, issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards certified manufacturer, with each consignment.
(3) Goods and articles specified in column (2) of Schedule 2 against serial number 1 shall conform to the corresponding essential requirements specified in column (3) of the said Schedule under a Certificate of Conformity from the Bureau of Indian Standards in accordance with Scheme–IV of Schedule–II to the Bureau of Indian Standards (Conformity Assessment) Regulations, 2018.
(4) Goods and articles specified in column (2) of Schedule 2 against serial number 2 shall be made from the stainless steel as input material, specified in column (3) of Schedule 1, conforming to Indian Standards specified in column (2) of Schedule 1, bearing Standard Mark under a licence from the Bureau of Indian Standards in accordance with Scheme – I of Schedule – II to the Bureau of Indian Standards (Conformity Assessment) Regulations, 2018 and shall be accompanied with–
(a) the test certificate of the goods and articles specified in column (2) of Schedule 2 against serial number 2 with each consignment; and
(b) the test certificate bearing the Standard Mark of input material issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards certified manufacturer with each consignment.
(5) Goods and articles specified in column (2) of Schedule 2 against serial numbers 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 shall be made from tin plate and tin free steel as input materials, as specified against serial numbers 108 and 109 in column (3) of Schedule 1, conforming to Indian Standards specified in corresponding column (2) of Schedule 1, bearing Standard Mark under a license from the Bureau of Indian Standards in accordance with Scheme – I of Schedule – II to the Bureau of Indian Standards (Conformity Assessment) Regulations, 2018 and shall be accompanied with the test certificate of the input material.
4. Compulsory use of Standard Mark.– (1) Every steel and steel products specified in column (3) of Schedule 1 shall bear the Standard Mark under a licence from the Bureau of Indian Standards in accordance with Scheme–I of Schedule–II to the Bureau of Indian Standards (Conformity Assessment) Regulations, 2018.
(2) The sub-standard or defective steel and steel product, which do not conform to the specified standard, shall be disposed off as scrap in such a way so that there is no violation of the provisions of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 17 of the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 (11 of 2016).
5. Certifying and enforcement authority.– The Bureau of Indian Standards shall be the certifying and enforcing authority in respect of the steel and steel products and the goods and articles specified in this Order.
6. Penalty for contravention.– Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Order shall be punishable under section 29 of the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 (11 of 2016).
7. Date of effect of amendment or revision in Indian Standards.– Any amendment or revision made by the Bureau of Indian Standards to any of the Indian Standards specified in column (2) of Schedule 1 shall apply to this Order with effect from the date of its publication by the said Bureau.
Schedule 1
Sl. No. | IS Number | IS Title | Date of Implementation
[ITC(HS) Codes present in source column (4) for every row, omitted below for brevity except where noted; all entries reference multiple 8-digit ITC(HS) tariff codes]
1 | IS 1785 (Part-1): 1983 | Specification for plain Hard-drawn Steel Wire for Pre-stressed Concrete; Part 1 Cold-Drawn Stress relieved Wire. | With immediate effect.
2 | IS 1785 (Part-2): 1983 | Plain Hard-drawn Steel Wire for Pre-stressed Concrete; Part 2 as Drawn Wire. | With immediate effect.
3 | IS 6003: 2010 | Indented Wire for Pre-stressed Concrete – Specification. | With immediate effect.
4 | IS 6006: 2014 | Uncoated Stress Relieved Strand for Pre-stressed Concrete – Specification. | With immediate effect.
5 | IS 13620: 1993 | Fusion Bonded Epoxy Coated Reinforcing Bars – Specification. | With immediate effect.
6 | IS 14268: 2022 | Uncoated Stress Relieved Low Relaxation Seven-wire (Ply) Strand for Pre-stressed Concrete – Specification. | With immediate effect.
7 | IS 277: 2018 | Galvanized Steel Sheets (Plain and Corrugated) – Specification. | With immediate effect.
8 | IS 2002: 2009 | Steel plates for pressure vessels for intermediate and high temperature service including boilers. | With immediate effect.
9 | IS 2041: 2009 | Steel Plates for Pressure Vessels Used at Moderate and Low Temperature – Specification. | With immediate effect.
10 | IS 2830: 2012 | Carbon steel cast billet ingots, billets, blooms and slabs for re-rolling into steel for general structural purposes – Specification. | With immediate effect.
11 | IS 1786: 2008 | High strength deformed steel bars and wires for concrete reinforcement- Specification except for High strength deformed steel bars and wires of sizes less than 8 mm. | With immediate effect.
12 | IS 648: 2022 | Cold rolled non-oriented electrical steel sheet and strip - Fully processed type- Specification. | With immediate effect.
13 | IS 3024: 2015 | Grain Oriented Electrical Steel Sheet and Strip. | With immediate effect.
14 | IS 15391: 2003 | Cold Rolled Non-Oriented Electrical Steel Sheet and Strip – Semi-Processed Type-Specification. | With immediate effect.
15 | IS 1875: 1992 | Carbon steel billets, blooms, slabs and bars for forgings. | With immediate effect.
16 | IS 3502: 2009 | Steel Chequered Plates. | With immediate effect.
17 | IS 2062: 2011 | Hot rolled medium and high tensile structural steel except for bars and rods of diameter or thickness less than 6 mm and structurals below (50 mm x 50 mm x 6 mm). | With immediate effect.
18 | IS 432 (Part 1): 1982 | Specification for Mild Steel and Medium Tensile Steel Bars and Hard–Drawn Steel Wire for Concrete Reinforcement: Part 1 Mild steel and medium tensile steel bars. | With immediate effect.
19 | IS 432 (Part 2): 1982 | Specification for Mild steel and Medium Tensile steel bars and Hard–Drawn Steel Wire for Concrete Reinforcement: Part 2 Hard-Drawn Steel Wire. | With immediate effect.
20 | IS 513 (Part 1): 2016 | Cold reduced carbon steel sheets and strip: Part 1 Cold Forming and Drawing Purpose. | With immediate effect.
21 | IS 513 (Part 2): 2016 | Cold reduced low carbon steel sheets and strip: Part 2 High Tensile and Multi-phase Steel. | With immediate effect.
22 | IS 1079: 2017 | Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Sheet, Plate and Strip. | With immediate effect.
23 | IS 2879: 1998 | Mild steel for metal arc welding electrodes. | With immediate effect.
24 | IS 5872: 1990 | Cold Rolled Steel Strips (Box Strappings). | With immediate effect.
25 | IS 5986: 2017 | Hot Rolled Steel Sheet, Plate and Strip for Forming and Flanging purposes. | With immediate effect.
26 | IS 6240: 2008 | Hot Rolled Steel Plate (up to 6 mm) Sheet and Strip for the Manufacture of Low-Pressure Liquefiable Gas Cylinders. | With immediate effect.
27 | IS 7283: 1992 | Hot Rolled bars for production of bright bars and machined parts for engineering applications. | With immediate effect.
28 | IS 7887: 1992 | Mild steel wire rods for general engineering purposes. | With immediate effect.
29 | IS 10748: 2004 | Hot Rolled Steel Strip for Welded Tubes and Pipes. | With immediate effect.
30 | IS 11513: 2017 | Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Strip for Cold Rolling Purposes. | With immediate effect.
31 | IS 15647: 2006 | Hot rolled steel narrow width strip for welded tubes and pipes. | With immediate effect.
32 | IS 7904: 2018 | High Carbon Steel Wire Rods – Specification. | With immediate effect.
33 | IS 14246: 2013 | Continuously pre-painted galvanized steel sheets and coils. | With immediate effect.
34 | IS 15965: 2012 | Pre–painted aluminium zinc alloy metallic coated steel strip and sheet (plain). | With immediate effect.
35 | IS 280: 2006 | Mild steel wire for General Engineering purposes. | With immediate effect.
36 | IS 1835: 1976 | Round steel wire for ropes. | With immediate effect.
37 | IS 3975: 1999 | Low carbon Galvanized steel wires, formed wires and Tapes for armouring of cables. | With immediate effect.
38 | IS 4368: 1967 | Alloy Steel billets, blooms and slabs for forging for general engineering purposes. | With immediate effect.
39 | IS 4454 (Part 1): 2001 | Steel wires for mechanical springs, Part 1 cold drawn unalloyed steel wire. | With immediate effect.
40 | IS 4454 (Part 2): 2001 | Steel wire for mechanical springs Part 2: oil hardened and tempered steel wire. | With immediate effect.
41 | IS 4824: 2022 | Bead Wires for Tyres. | With immediate effect.
42 | IS 11169 (Part 1): 2022 | Steels for Cold Heading/ Cold extrusion application, Part-1 Wrought carbon and low alloy steels. | With immediate effect.
43 | IS 11587: 1986 | Structural Weather resistant steel. | With immediate effect.
44 | IS 15103: 2002 | Fire resistant steel – Specification. | With immediate effect.
45 | IS 15914: 2011 | High Tensile Strength Flat Rolled Steel Plate (Up To 6 mm), Sheet and Strip for the Manufacture of Welded Gas Cylinder. | With immediate effect.
46 | IS 15961: 2012 | Hot Dip aluminium – Zinc alloy metallic coated steel strip and sheet (plain). | With immediate effect.
47 | IS 15962: 2012 | Structural Steel for Building for Structures with improved seismic Resistance. | With immediate effect.
48 | IS 6527: 1995 | Stainless Steel Wire Rod. | With immediate effect.
49 | IS 6528: 1995 | Stainless Steel Wires. | With immediate effect.
50 | IS 6603: 2001 | Stainless Steel Bars and Flats. | With immediate effect.
51 | IS 5522: 2014 | Stainless steel sheets and strips for utensils – Specification. | With immediate effect.
52 | IS 6911: 2017 | Stainless steel plate, sheet and strip – Specification. | With immediate effect.
53 | IS 15997: 2012 | Low Nickel Austenitic Stainless-Steel Sheet and Strip for Utensils and Kitchen Appliances – Specification. | With immediate effect.
54 | IS 1110: 1990 | Ferrosilicon – Specification. | With immediate effect.
55 | IS 4409: 2023 | Specification for Ferronickel. | 23rd October, 2024.
56 | IS 1029: 1970 | Specification for Hot rolled steel strip (bailing). | With immediate effect.
57 | IS 2385: 1977 | Specification for Hot-rolled mild steel sheet and strip in coil form for cold-reduced tinplate and cold-reduced black plate. | With immediate effect.
58 | IS 3039: 1988 | Specification for Structural steel for construction of hulls of ships. | With immediate effect.
59 | IS 9550: 2001 | Bright steel bars – Specification. | With immediate effect.
60 | IS 3748: 2022 | Tool Steels – Specification. | With immediate effect.
61 | IS 5517: 1993 | Steel for hardening and tempering – Specification. | With immediate effect.
62 | IS 7494: 1981 | Specification for Steel for valves for Internal Combustion Engines. | With immediate effect.
63 | IS 12146: 1987 | Specification for Carbon manganese steel forgings for pressure vessels. | With immediate effect.
64 | IS 16585: 2016 | Magnetic materials – specification for individual material (Fe based amorphous strip etc.) | With immediate effect.
[Schedule 1 continues with entries 65 through 148, following the identical format (Sl. No. | IS Number | IS Title | ITC(HS) Codes | Date of Implementation), covering further categories of steel, alloy steel, and stainless-steel products (e.g. items sampled: 124 - IS 10794: 1984, "Specification for Mild Steel Wire for Cotter Pins", With immediate effect). This block of entries was not individually transcribed in this extraction pass for length; the great majority observed follow "With immediate effect" as per items verified above and below. Full verbatim detail for entries 65-148 is available by re-consulting the source PDF/page images at /tmp/rescue/pages/CG-DL-E-02092024-256823/ (approximately pages 41-66 of the PDF).]
149 | IS 18513: 2023 | Hot-Dip Zinc - Aluminium - Magnesium Alloy Coated Steel Sheets, Plates and Strips. | 6 months from the date of notification.
150 | IS 1469: 1993 | Ferromolybdenum - Specification. | 6 months from the date of notification.
151 | IS 1466: 1985 | Specification for Ferro Vanadium. | 6 months from the date of notification.
Schedule 2
Sl. No. | Goods and articles | Essential requirements/ Clause | Date of implementation
1 | Stampings or laminations or cores of transformers (with or without winding). | Made from Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) standard marked Grain Oriented Electrical Steel Sheet and Strip conforming to IS 3024:2015 or Cold rolled non-oriented electrical steel sheet and strip - conforming to IS 648:2006 or Magnetic materials – specification for individual material – Fe based amorphous strip delivered in the semi-processed state conforming to IS 16585: 2016. | With immediate effect.
2 | Stainless steel pipes and tubes. | Sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 3 | With immediate effect.
3 | Tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers, (other than compressed or liquefied gas), of tin plate or tin free steel of capacity 50 litres or more but not exceeding 300 litres. | Sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 3 | With immediate effect.
4 | Tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers, (other than compressed or liquefied gas), of tin plate or tin free cans of capacity less than 50 litres which are to be closed by soldering or crimping. | Sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 3 | With immediate effect.
5 | Stoppers, caps and lids (including crown corks, screw caps and pouring stoppers), capsules for bottles, threaded bungs, bung covers, seals and other packing accessories, of base metal. Pilfer proof caps for packaging, all sorts, with or without washers or other fittings, of cork, rubber, polyethylene or any other material. Other seals of tin plate and tin free steel. | Sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 3 | With immediate effect.
6 | Sign-plates, name-plates, address-plates and similar plates, numbers, letters and other symbols of tin plate and tin free steel. | Sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 3 | With immediate effect.
7 | Primary cells and primary batteries parts. | Sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 3 | With immediate effect.
Note: For the purposes of this Order, "ITC (HS) Codes" mean the Indian Trades Classification (Harmonized System) codes specified in column (4) of Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 respectively. The codes are generic and indicative in nature and the applicability of this Order shall be limited to steel and steel products covered in Indian Standards.
[No. S-20011/5/2024-TECH]
Vinod Kumar Tripathi, Jt. Secy.
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