G/TBT/N/MEX/512  
27 July 2022 
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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 : Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de la Secretaría de 
Economía , CCONNSE (National Advisory Committee on Standardization of the Ministry of 
the Economy)  
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:  
Calle Pachuca número 189, Piso 7, Col . Condesa, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CP. 06140, Ciudad 
de México, Tel. : 55 57 29 91 00, Ext. 13245  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], 
other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Toys, 
games and sports requisites ; parts and accessories thereof (HS code 95) ; Toys (ICS code : 
97.200.50)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : PROYECTO de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-253-SE-2021, Juguetes -Requisitos de segurid ad 
mecánica, física, eléctrica e inflamabilidad  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-
253-SE-2021, Toys - mechanical, physical and electrical safety and flammability 
requirements) (23 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Me xican technical regulation (Mexican Official 
Standard) establishes the safety requirements for toys manufactured, imported and 
marketed in the national territory.  
It applies to the toys listed below:  
 Non-aquatic inflatable toys;  
 Aquatic toys (swim rings, arm bands, boats, foam boards and pool noodles);  
 Electric trains;  
 Therapeutic/educational toys;  
 Scale model assembly kits of balsa wood;  
 Toy musical instruments and apparatus;  
 Counting frames (abaci);  
 Toys for children not more than 36 months old;  
 Water -projecting toys;  G/TBT/N/MEX/512  
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   Circuits for electric racing cars;  
 Children's rattles;  
 Babies' teething rings;  
 Baby gyms;  
 Mobiles for babies' cots;  
 Balloons;  
 Wooden toys;  
 Protective helmets;  
 Ride-ons with or without pedals or powered by rechar geable batteries;  
 Projectile toys;  
 Propeller toys;  
 Toys with heat sources;  
 Mouth -actuated toys;  
 Metal or plastic four -wheeled skates;  
 In-line skates;  
 Skateboards;  
 Toys with percussion caps;  
 Acoustic toys;  
 Scooters;  
 Magnetic and electric games;  
 Sleds with rope;  
 Toy rocking chairs;  
 Spring rocking horses;  
 Musical carousels;  
 Jack-in-the-box (mechanical or electric);  
 Plush animals;  
 Stuffed toys;  
 Scale toy vehicles;  
 Modelling dough;  
 Large toys for installation  outdoors  (slides, seesaws and similar);  
 Children's trampolines.  
It is not applicable to:  
 Collectible products not intended for children under 14 years of age;  
 Holiday decorations that are primarily intended for ornamental purposes;  
 Aquatic equipment intended t o be used in deep water;  
 Video game arcades installed in public places;  
 Puzzles;  
 Fireworks;  
 Products containing heating elements intended for use under the supervision of an adult 
in a teaching context;  G/TBT/N/MEX/512  
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   Toy steam engines;  
 Video toys that can be conne cted to a video screen and operated at a nominal voltage 
greater than 24 V;  
 Babies' pacifiers (dummies);  
 Faithful reproduction of firearms;  
 Electric ovens, irons or other functional products operated at a nominal voltage greater 
than 24 V;  
 Bows for arc hery with an overall relaxed length exceeding 120 cm;  
 Girls' fashion accessories;  
 Automatic playing machines, whether coin -operated or not, intended for public use;  
 Toy vehicles equipped with combustion engines;  
 Bicycles;  
 Science equipment and product s intended for educational purposes in schools and other 
educational contexts under adult supervision;  
 Personal protective equipment, including swimming goggles, sunglasses and other eye 
protectors;  
 Science toys that do not contain electrical parts or are intended for children over 14 years 
of age;  
 Slingshots and catapults;  
 Darts with metal points;  
 Compressed air - and gas -operated guns and pistols;  
 Kites;  
 Model assembly kits, hobby and craft items, in which the finished item is not primarily of 
play value;  
 Sporting and camping goods and equipment;  
 Models of aircraft, rockets, boats and land vehicles powered by combustion engines.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling ; Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:  
- Official Mexican Standard NOM -015-SCFI-2007, Información comercial -Etiquetado para 
juguetes , published in the Official Journal of 1 7 April 2 008. 
- Official Mexican Stand ard NOM -017-SCFI-1993, Información comercial etiquetado de 
artículos reconstruidos, usados o de segunda mano, de segunda línea, discontinuados y 
fuera de especificaciones , published in the Official Journal on 2 9 October 1 993. 
- Official Mexican Standard NO M-024-SCFI-2013,  Información comercial para empaques, 
instructivos y garantías de los productos electrónicos, eléctricos y electrodomésticos , 
published in the Official Journal on 1 2 August 2 013. 
- Official Mexican Standard NOM -106-SCFI-2017, Característica s de diseño y condiciones 
de uso de la contraseña oficial , published in the Official Journal on 8 September 2 017. 
- Official Mexican Standard NOM -161-SCFI-2003, Seguridad al usuario -Juguetes -Réplicas 
de armas de fuego -Especificaciones de seguridad y métodos de prueba , published in the 
Official Journal on 2 0 October 2 003. 
- Mexican Standard NMX -Z-012/2 -1987, Muestreo para la inspección por atributos -Parte 
2: Métodos de muestreo, tablas y gráficas , published in the Official Journal on 2 8 October 
1987. G/TBT/N/MEX/512  
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  - Mexican Standard NMX -CC-9001-IMNC -2015, Sistemas de gestión de la calidad -
Requisitos  (cancels Mexican Standard NMX -CC-9001-IMNC -2008, Sistemas de Gestión de 
calidad -Requisitos ). Notice of entry into force published in the Official Journal on 3 May 
2016. 
- Mexican Standard NMX -EC-17065 -IMNC -2014, Evaluación de la conformidad -Requisitos 
para organismos que certifican productos, procesos y servicios  (cancels Mexican Standard 
NMX-EC-065-IMNC -2000) . Notice of entry into force published in the Official Journal o n 6 
June 2 014. 
- Mexican Standard NMX -EC-17067 -IMNC -2018, Evaluación de la conformidad -
Fundamentos de la certificación de producto y directrices para los esquemas de 
certificación de producto  (cancels Mexican Standard NMX -EC-067-IMNC -2007) . Notice of 
entry into force published in the Official Journal on 3 0 August 2 018. 
- Mexican Standard NMX -CC-19011 -IMNC -2012, Directrices para la auditoría de los 
sistemas de gestión  (cancels Mexican Standard NMX -CC-19011 -IMNC -2012) . Notice of 
entry into force publishe d in the Official Journal on 1 7 September 2 012. 
- ISO 8124 -1:2018, Safety of toys - Part 1 : Safety aspects related to mechanical and 
physical properties.  
- ISO 8124 -2:2014, Safety of toys - Part 2 : Flammability.  
- IEC 62115 :2017, Electric toys - Safety.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : To be determined  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Secretaría de Economía  (Ministry of the Economy)  
Dirección General de Normas (Directorate -General of Standards)  
Contact person : César Osvaldo Orozco Arce  
Pachuca 189, Colonia Condesa,  
Demarcación te rritorial Cuauhtémoc,  
Ciudad de México, 06140  
Tel.: (+52 55) 5729 91 00, Ext. 13247 or 13264  
Email: tania.fosado@economia.gob.mx ; emeterio.mosso@econo mia.gob.mx  
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