G/TBT/N/ECU/433  
17 May 2019 
(19-3447) 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 : 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 n umbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Trunks, 
suit-cases, vanity -cases, executive -cases, brief -cases,  school satchels, spectacle cases, 
binocular cases, camera cases,  musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar  
containers ; travelling -bags, insulated food or beverages bags,  toilet bags, rucksacks, 
handbags, shopping -bags, wallets, purses,  map-cases, cigarette -cases, tobacco -pouches, 
tool bags, sports  bags, bottle -cases, jewellery boxes, powder -boxes, cutlery cases  and 
similar containers, of leather or of composition leather, of  sheeting of plastics, of textile 
materials, of vulcanised fibre or of  paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such 
materials or  with paper (HS 4202)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the  notified document : Proyecto de 
Segunda Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 157 (2R) "Etiquetado 
de productos de marroquinería" (Draft second revision (2R) of Ecuadorian Technical 
Regulation PRTE INEN No. 157 "Labelling of articles of lea ther") (11 pages, in Spanish)  G/TBT/N/ECU/433  
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  6. Description of content : The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the 
labelling requirements to be met by articles of leather, prior to the nationalization of 
imported products and the marketing of domestic products, with the aim of preventing 
practices likely to mislead or deceive consumers.  
The notified Technical Regulation applies to articles of leather.  
It does not apply to:  
• Goods subject to special treatment (Chapter 98 of the Tariff Classification of 
Ecuador). [ Passenger luggage ; household goods and/or work equipment ; 
donations from abroad ; diplomatic allowances ; goods for use by persons with 
disabilities ; samples with no commercial value ; international postal traffic or 
express courier deliveries ; certified reference materials ; and relief consignments 
for natural or similar disasters ]. The provisions of the Organic Code of Production, 
Trade and Investment, the resolutions issued by COMEX and the relevant 
procedures established by the National Customs Ser vice of Ecuador (SENAE) will 
apply to these goods.  
• Products covered by Ecuadorian Standardization Institute Technical Regulation 
(RTE INEN) No. 013 "Labelling of articles of apparel, household linen and clothing 
accessories", which is in force.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling ; prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection.  
8. Relevant documents:  
Normative references:  
1. EN 15987:2015, Leather - Terminology - Key definitions for the leather trade.  
Notification history:  
1. G/TBT/N/ECU/256  
2. G/TBT/N/ECU/256/Add.1  
3. G/TBT/N/ECU/256/Add.2  
4. G/TBT/N/ECU/256/Add.3  
5. G/TBT/N/ECU/256/Add.4  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 60 days from notification or thereafter  
Propo sed date of entry into force : 180 days from the date of adoption  
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:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisher ies) 
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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