G/TBT/N/ECU/447  
27 mai 2019  
(19-3633) Page: 1/4 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : ECUADOR  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2  and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización , INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Service)  
Calle Baquerizo Moreno E8 -29 y Diego de Almagro  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3825960 to 90  
Website: http://www.normalizacion.gob.ec/  
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:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y A lfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec ; puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com ; 
aramon@produccion.gob.ec ; cyepez@produccion.gob.ec ; jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.industrias.gob.ec/  
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) : Stranded 
wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of copper, not electrically insulated (HS 7413) ; 
Of refined copper (HS 74081) . 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Segunda Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 153 (2R) "Conductores 
y alambres de cobre desnudo para uso eléctrico"  (Draft second revision (2R) of Ecuadorian 
Technical Regulation (PRTE INEN) No. 153 "Bare copper conductors and wir es for 
electrical use") (11 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Technical Regulation establishes the requirements 
to be met by bare copper conductors and wires for electrical use, prior to the marketing 
of domestic and imported prod ucts, with the aim of protecting human safety and 
preventing deceptive practices.  
It applies to the following products:  
• Hard-drawn bare copper wires, of circular cross -section.  
• Medium -hard-drawn bare copper wires, of circular cross -section.  G/TBT/N/ECU/447  
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  • Annealed or soft-drawn bare copper wires, of circular cross -section.  
• Tin-coated soft or annealed copper wires.  
• Tinned hard -drawn and medium -hard-drawn copper wires.  
• Lead-coated and lead -alloy-coated soft or annealed copper wires.  
• Soft or annealed rectangular and squar e bare copper wires.  
• Concentric -lay-stranded hard, medium -hard or soft copper conductors.  
• 19-wire combination unilay copper conductors.  
• Compressed circular round -stranded copper conductors.  
• Stranded copper conductors having bunch -stranded members.  
• Stranded  copper conductors having concentric -stranded members.  
• Bunch -stranded copper conductors.  
• Compact round stranded copper conductors with single input wire construction.  
• Concentric -lay-stranded copper and copper -clad steel conductors.  
It does not apply to:  
• Copper wire rod from 7.5 mm to 10 mm used as raw material for the manufacture 
of copper conductors and wires for electrical use.  
• Enamel wires (winding wires and electromagnetic wires).  
• Wires for electronic application.  
• Contact wires for electric traction.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling ; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection ; Protection of human health or safety.  
8. Relevant documents:  
Normative refere nces:  
1. ISO 2859 -1:1999+Amd 1:2011, Sampling procedures for inspection by attributes 
- Part 1 : Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot -by-
lot inspection . 
2. ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and 
calibration laboratories.  
3. ISO/IEC 17050 -1:2004, Conformity assessment - Supplier's declaration of 
conformity - Part 1 : General requirements.  
4. ISO/IEC 17067:2013, Conformity assessment - Fundamentals of product 
certification and guidelines for product certific ation schemes.  
5. EN 13602:2013, Copper and copper alloys . Drawn, round copper wire for the 
manufacture of electrical conductors.  
6. ASTM B33 -10:2014, Standard Specification for Tin -Coated Soft or Annealed 
Copper Wire for Electrical Purposes.  
7. ASTM B48 -00:2016, Standard Specification for Soft Rectangular and Square Bare 
Copper Wire for Electrical Conductors.  
8. ASTM B172 -17:2017, Standard Specification for Rope -Lay-Stranded Copper 
Conductors Having Bunch -Stranded Members, for Electrical Conductors.  
9. ASTM B173 -17:2017, Standard Specification for Rope -Lay-Stranded Copper 
Conductors Having Concentric -Stranded Members, for Electrical Conductors.  G/TBT/N/ECU/447  
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  10. ASTM B174 -17:2017, Standard Specification for Bunch -Stranded Copper 
Conductors for Electrical Conductors.  
11. ASTM B193 -16:20 17, Standard Test Method for Resistivity of Electrical Conductor 
Materials.  
12. ASTM B189 -05:2015, Standard Specification for Lead -Coated and Lead -Alloy-
Coated Soft Copper Wire for Electrical Purposes.  
13. ASTM B229 -12:2017, Standard Specification for Concentric -Lay-Stranded Copper 
and Copper -Clad Steel Composite Conductors.  
14. ASTM B246 -15:2015, Standard Specification for Tinned Hard -Drawn and Medium -
Hard-Drawn Copper Wire for Electrical Purposes.  
15. ASTM B835 -14:2014, Standard Specification for Compact Round Stranded C opper 
Conductors Using Single Input Wire Construction.  
16. ASTM E8/E8M -16a:2016, Standard Test Methods for Tension Testing of Metallic 
Materials.  
17. Ecuadorian Technical Standard NTE INEN 210 (1R):2013, Conductores, alambres 
y cables para uso eléctrico . Definicio nes. 
18. Ecuadorian Technical Standard NTE INEN 2173 (1R):2016, Alambres de cobre 
duro de sección circular para uso eléctrico . Requisitos.  
19. Ecuadorian Technical Standard NTE INEN 2174 (1R):2016, Alambres de cobre 
semiduro de sección circular para uso eléctrico . Requisitos.  
20. Ecuadorian Technical Standard NTE INEN 2175 (1R):2017, Alambres de cobre 
blando o recocido de sección circular para uso eléctrico . Requisitos.  
21. Ecuadorian Technical Standard NTE INEN 2214 (1R):2013 + Corrigendum 
1:2014, Conductores de cobre du ro, semiduro o blando, cableado concéntrico . 
Requisitos.  
22. Ecuadorian Technical Standard NTE INEN 2577:2011, Conductores de cobre 
trenzados unidireccionalmente de combinación 19 alambres para su posterior 
aislamiento . Requisitos e inspección.  
23. Ecuadorian Tech nical Standard NTE INEN 2578:2011, Conductores circulares 
compactados de cobre trenzados de paso de cableado concéntrico . Requisitos e 
inspección.  
Notification history:  
1. G/TBT/N/ECU/145  
2. G/TBT/N/ECU/145/Add.1  
3. G/TBT/N/ECU/145/Add.2  
4. G/TBT/N/ECU/145/Add.3  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 60 days from notification or thereafter  
Proposed date of entry into force : 180 days from the date of adoption  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/ECU/447  
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  11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec ; puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com ; 
aramon@produccion.gob.ec ; cyepez@produccion.gob.ec ; jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
http://www.normalizacion.gob.ec/  
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