G/TBT/N/MEX/452  
17 April 2019 
(19-2569) Page: 1/3 
Committee  on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : MEXICO  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible : Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes , SCT (Ministry of 
Communications and Transport)  
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:  
Agencia Reguladora del Transporte Ferroviario , CCNN -TF (Rail Transport Regulatory 
Agency), Boulevard Manuel Ávila Camacho número 5, Corporativo A, tercer piso, 
Fraccionamiento Lomas de Sotelo, C.P. 53390, municipio de Naucalpan de Juárez, Estado 
de México, Tel. : 57 23 93 00, Ext. 73436, Email: karla.fernandez@sct.gob.mx  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 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) : Concrete 
sleepers  
5. Title, numbe r of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-001-ARTF-2019, "Sistema Ferroviario -
Infraestructura -Durmientes monolíticos -Especificaciones y métodos de prueba" (Draft 
Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-001-ARTF-2019, "Railway System - Infrastructure 
-Monolithic sleepers - Specifications and test methods") (36 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard is applicable 
throughout the United Mexican States to natur al and legal persons engaged in the 
manufacture, installation, operation and marketing of this type of sleepers.  
The specifications for prestressed concrete sleepers do not apply to post -tensioned 
concrete sleepers and vice versa.  
7. Objective and rationa le, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the specifications and 
technical requirements for manufacture and use to be met by concrete sleepers for 
installation on tracks in the Me xican railway system.  
8. Relevant documents:  
• ASTM A1064/A1064M -17, Standard Specification for Carbon -Steel Wire and 
Welded Wire Reinforcement, Plain and Deformed, for Concrete;  
• ASTM A242/A242M -13, Standard Specification for High -Strength Low -Alloy 
Structural Steel;  G/TBT/N/MEX/452  
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  • ASTM A416/A416M -12, Standard Specification for Steel Strand, Uncoated 
Seven -Wire for Prestressed Concrete;  
• ASTM A421/A421M -15, Standard Specification for Stress -Relieved Steel Wire 
for Prestressed Concrete;  
• ASTM A -440, Specification for High-Strength Structural Steel;  
• ASTM A500/A500M -18, Standard Specification for Cold -Formed Welded and 
Seamless Carbon Steel Structural Tubing in Rounds and Shapes;  
• ASTM A501/A501M -14, Standard Specification for Hot -Formed Welded and 
Seamless Carbon Steel S tructural Tubing;  
• ASTM A53/A53M -12, Standard Specification for Pipe, Steel, Black and Hot -
Dipped, Zinc -Coated, Welded and Seamless;  
• ASTM A558, Specification for Bare Mild Steel Electrodes and Fluxes for 
Submerged Arc Welding;  
• ASTM A572/A572M -15, Standard S pecification for High -Strength Low -Alloy 
Columbium -Vanadium Structural Steel;  
• ASTM A615/A615M -16, Standard Specification for Deformed and Plain 
Carbon -Steel Bars for Concrete Reinforcement;  
• ASTM A616/A616M -96a, Standard Specification for Rail -Steel Deforme d and 
Plain Bars for Concrete Reinforcement;  
• ASTM A617/A617M -96a, Standard Specification for Axle -Steel Deformed and 
Plain Bars for Concrete Reinforcement;  
• ASTM A722/A722M -15, Standard Specification for High -Strength Steel Bars 
for Prestressed Concrete;  
• ASTM A881/A881M -16a, Standard Specification for Steel Wire, Indented, 
Low-Relaxation for Prestressed Concrete;  
• ASTM A886/A886M -17, Standard Specification for Steel Strand, Indented, 
Seven -Wire Stress -Relieved for Prestressed Concrete;  
• ASTM A911/A911M -15, Sta ndard Specification for Low -Relaxation Steel Bars 
for Prestressed Concrete Railroad Ties;  
• ASTM B117 -16, Standard Practice for Operating Salt Spray (Fog) Apparatus;  
• ASTM C1105 -08a, Standard Test Method for Length Change of Concrete Due 
to Alkali -Carbonate Rock Reaction;  
• ASTM C1260, Standard Test Method for Potential Alkali Reactivity of 
Aggregates (Mortar -Bar Method);  
• ASTM C1293 -08b, Standard Test Method for Determination of Length Change 
of Concrete Due to Alkali -Silica Reaction;  
• ASTM C150/C150M -17, Standa rd Specification for Portland Cement;  
• ASTM C1567 -13, Standard Test Method for Determining the Potential Alkali -
Silica Reactivity of Combinations of Cementitious Materials and Aggregate 
(Accelerated Mortar -Bar Method);  
• ASTM C184 -94e1, Standard Test Method for Fineness of Hydraulic Cement by 
the 150 -µm (No. 100) and 75 -µm (No. 200) Sieves;  
• ASTM C260/C260M -10A, Standard Specification for Air -Entraining Admixtures 
for Concrete;  
• ASTM C295/C295M -12, Standard Guide for Petrographic Examination of 
Aggregates for C oncrete;  
• ASTM C31/C31M -18, Standard Practice for Making and Curing Concrete Test 
Specimens in the Field;  G/TBT/N/MEX/452  
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  • ASTM C33/C33M -16E1, Standard Specification for Concrete Aggregates;  
• ASTM C359, Standard Test Method for Early Stiffening of Hydraulic Cement 
(Mortar Me thod);  
• ASTM C39/C39M -18, Standard Test Method for Compressive Strength of 
Cylindrical Concrete Specimens;  
• ASTM C494/C494M -17, Standard Specification for Chemical Admixtures for 
Concrete;  
• ASTM C666/C666M -15, Standard Test Method for Resistance of Concrete t o 
Rapid Freezing and Thawing;  
• ASTM C856 -17, Standard Practice for Petrographic Examination of Hardened 
Concrete;  
• N-CMT-2-02-005/04, "Materiales para Concreto Hidráulico" . 
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : To be determined.  
10. Final date for comments : 10 June 2 019 
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Secretaría de Economía  (Ministry of the Ec onomy)  
Dirección General de Normas  (Directorate -General of Standards)  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43244  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715  
Website : http://www.economia.gob.mx/comunidad -negocios/normalizacion/catalogo -
mexicano -de-normas  
Email:  
normasomc@economia.gob.mx ; sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx ; 
jose.ramosr@economia.gob.mx  
Text available at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5557562&fecha=11/04/2019  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/MEX/19_2240_00_s.pdf