G/TBT/N/CHL/577  
18 October  2021 
(21-7858) 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 : CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Ministerio de Energía  (Ministry of Energy)  
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:  
Subse cretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales - Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores de Chile (Under -Secretariat for International Economic Relations, Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of Chile)  
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) : Domestic 
wood -burning stoves  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : NCh 3446:2020 
Cocinas domésticas que utilizan leña - Requisitos y métodos de ensayo  (Chilean Standard 
(NCh) No. 3446:2020, Domestic wood -burning stoves - Requirements and test methods) 
(52 page s, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Standard specifies the requirements relating to the 
design, manufacture, assembly, safety, performance, power, combustion gases, 
instructions and marking of domestic wood -burning stoves . It also estab lishes the test 
methods for domestic wood -burning stoves . The notified Standard is applicable to 
manually fired domestic stoves of up to 25 kW, which are used primarily for cooking, with 
their secondary function being to heat the space in which they are in stalled . This Standard 
is not applicable to appliances that are fed by hoppers or fired mechanically, or to 
appliances that have fan -assisted combustion air.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of human health or safety ; Protection of the environment.  
8. Relevant documents:  
- NCh 3446:2020 , Cocinas domésticas que utilizan leña - Requisitos y métodos de ensayo . 
- NCh 2198 : 1993, Artefactos que usan combustibles - Elementos para el rotulado - 
Clasificación, requisitos generales y métodos de ensayos . 
- NCh 3139 : 2008, Artefactos de uso doméstico y similares que utilizan combustibles - 
Equipamiento eléctrico - Requisitos de segu ridad. 
- NCh 2907:2005, Combustible sólido - Leña - Requisitos . G/TBT/N/CHL/577  
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  - ASTM A515, Standard Specification for Pressure Vessel Plates, Carbon Steel, for 
Intermediate - and Higher -Temperature Service.  
- GB/T 700, Carbon structural steels.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - 
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:  
To view the above -mentioned Standard, go to https://www.inncoleccion.cl/  and enter 
the following details:  
 
Empresa  (Company) : SUBREI -008 
Usuario  (Username) : subrei 
Contraseña  (Password) : subrei