G/TBT/N/BRA/1159  
19 April 2021  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  BRAZIL   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology 
(INMETRO)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if  different from above:   
National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – INMETRO  
Telephone: +(55) 21 2145.3817  
Email: barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br   
Web-site: www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Products 
with gifts  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance No. 165, 13 April 2021. (1 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  The Ordinance provides consol idation of the regulation for the 
nominal content of products with gifts.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Product safety; Consumer protection. Decree 10,139 of 28 November 2019 
provides for the need fo r revision and consolidation of normative acts below the decree. 
It aims to update and consolidate regulatory acts, elimination of obsolete regulations 
whose effects have been exhausted in time or the need cannot be identified. Thus, the 
inventories and co mplexity of regulatory processes will be reduced. Harmonized 
regulations of the Common Market Group Mercosul should be internalized by the States 
in their regulatory systems, which is the case of GMC Resolution 94/1994 on nominal 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
01) Brazilian Official Gazette 71 on 29 March 2021, section 1, page 47 02) Inmetro 
Ordinance 180, 14 December 1998 03) Mercosul  Resolution GMC 94/1994 04) Decree No. 
10.139 of 28 November 2019  
https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/ -/portaria -inmetro -n-165-de-13-de-abril-de-2021-
314565646  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC000568.pdf  
https://normas.mercosur.int/simfiles/normativas/29433_RES_094 -
1994_PT_ProductRegalos.pdf  
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2019 -2022/2019/decreto/D10139.htm  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 June 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 June 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  Not applicable  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislac ao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002741.pdf  
National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – INMETRO  
Telephone: +(55) 21 2145.3817  
Email: barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br   
Web-site: www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas