G/TBT/N/PER/120  
3 April 2020 
(20-2689) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Ministerio de Salud , MINSA (Ministry of Health)  
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:  
Ministe rio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism)  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2.10.1 [X], 5.6.2 [ ], 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) : 
6307.90.30.00 Face -masks  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Technical 
specifications for the manufacture of cloth face -masks for use by the community  
6. Description of content : The purpose of the present document is to establish technical 
specifications in order to lay down the design and manufacturing requirements for cloth 
face-masks for use by the community.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of human health against the COVID -19 virus  
8. Relevant documents:  
• NTP 329 .200:2000 . Materiales Médicos . Mascarillas quirúrgicas . Requisitos y 
métodos de ensayo.  
• ISO 4915 :1991 : Textiles -Stitch types - Classification and terminology  
Pan American Health Organization technical documents on coronavirus disease (COVID -
2019):  
• A WHO guide to inform and harmonize national and international pandemic 
preparedness and response  
• Resolución Directoral N° 002 -2020-INACAL/DN la Norma Técnica Peruana (NTP) 
sobre mascarillas quirúrgicas.  
• Orígenes, Evolución y contextos de la tecnología Textil : La producción del tejido 
en la Prehistoria y La Protohistoria, arqu eología y Territorio Nº 9. 2012. pp. 133 -
145, Universidad de Granada.  G/TBT/N/PER/120  
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption : Not applicable  
Proposed date of entry into force : Not applicable  
10. Final date for comments : Not applicable  
11. Texts available from : National Enquiry Point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Ministerio de Salud - Sede Central  
Av. Salaverry 801  
Jesús María, Lima, Peru  
Email: webmaste r@minsa.gob.pe  
Tel.: (+51) 1 3156600  
Website: https://www.gob.pe/institucion/minsa/normas -legales/462876 -135-2020-
minsa  
http://extranet.comunidadandina.org/sirt/public/index.aspx  
http://consultasenlinea.mincetur.gob.pe/notificaciones/Publico/FrmBuscad or.aspx  
 
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (MINCETUR)  
Calle Uno Oeste N° 050, Urb . Corpac, Lima 27, Peru  
Tel.: (+51) 1 5136100, Ext. 1223 and 1239  
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/PER/20_2355_00_s.pdf  
https://members.wto .org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/PER/20_2355_01_s.pdf