BIS Update – Proposed Mandatory Certification for Certain Bearings

WTO Members are invited to make comments, if any, within 60 days (approximately) of issuance of the notification i.e. by August 01, 2025.

The Draft QCO would come into force in a staggered manner for different types of enterprises once published in the Official Gazette:

• For micro enterprises: Eighteen months from the date of publication.
• For small enterprises: Fifteen months from the date of publication.
• For all enterprises other than micro and small enterprises: Twelve months from the date of publication.

The Draft QCO exempts certain kinds of goods or articles from its ambit, such as:

• Goods manufactured domestically for export;
• Goods imported as a part of any finished good or sub-assembly or component;
• Goods imported by the manufacturer of such bearings for manufacturing equipment or product or sub-assemblies or component in India for exports, subject to additional conditions;
• Imports of up to 200 bearings, per year, if imported for R&D by manufacturers of such bearings, subject to additional conditions including prohibition on being sold commercially.

Concerned manufacturers of the abovementioned goods or articles may raise any comments or questions at the WTO level through their respective governments within the 60-day comment period. Alternatively, questions or comments may be shared directly via e-mail to the Indian Government at the following e-mail id: lei-dpiit@gov.in or dheeraj.meena17@gov.in. Upon the conclusion of the aforementioned period, the Indian Government may finalize the Draft QCO and notify the same in the Indian gazette to enter into force on a specified date.

Post the enforcement of the QCO, products specified therein would not be permitted to be sold in India without certification from the Bureau of Indian Standards.