G/SPS/N/CHL/733  
13 July 2022 
(22-5359) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member : CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible : Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero , SAG (Agriculture and Livestock 
Service)  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO ; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable) : Handicrafts and other products of animal origin  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document : Establece medidas sanitarias para la importación a 
Chile de artesanías y otros productos que indica  (Sanitary measures for the importation 
into Chile of handicrafts and certain other products) Language(s) : Spanish Number of 
pages : 2 
https://members.wto.org/c rnattachments/2022/SPS/CHL/22_4642_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content : The proposed measure sets out sanitary requirements for 
handicrafts and other products of animal origin entering Chile with a courier or as 
commercial imports.  
1. Skulls, horns, antlers, bones, teeth, hooves, talons, claws and scales, and items made 
with one or more of these elements or made with hide, feathers, hair and bristles, 
such as pieces of jewellery or costume jewellery, decorative items, handicrafts, 
musical instruments and clothing, may enter Chile without a sanitary certificate and 
only if they meet the following requirements when undergoing physical inspection:  
− They must be dry and clean;  
− They must be free of any remnants of blood, flesh, skin, tendons, ligaments or 
any type of organic animal or plant matter (faeces, soil, etc.);  
− They must not emit any sort of unpleasant smell associated with the 
decomposition process . 
2. Maté cups made of hooves, as well meeting the above -mentioned requirements, must 
come from countries r ecognized as free of foot and mouth disease (with or without 
vaccination) by the World Organisation for Animal Health.  
3. The products mentioned that correspond to specimens of species protected under 
CITES must comply with the specific regulations, where app licable . Nevertheless, 
aspects pertaining to animal or plant health will take precedence over the CITES law, 
and the appropriate sanitary measures must be applied.  
7. Objective and rationale : [ ] food safety, [X] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  G/SPS/N/CHL/733  
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  8. Is there a relevant international standard ? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Aliment arius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) : 
[X] World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. T errestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) : Chapter 8.8 of the Terrestrial Animal 
Health Code of the Worl d Organisation for Animal Health.  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. I SPM No.) : 
[ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[X] Yes [ ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : Upon publication in the Official Journal.  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : Approximately 80 days from the date of 
circulation of the notification  
11. Proposed date of entry into force : [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : One month after publication in the Official Journal.  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments : [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 11 September 2 022 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments : [X] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point . Address, fax number and email address (if 
available) of other body:  
Email: sps.chile@sag.gob.cl  
13. Text(s) available from : [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry 
Point . Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body:  
Email: sps.chile@sag.gob.cl