G/TBT/N/PRY/75  
25 March 2014  
(14-1849)  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: PARAGUAY 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Ministerio de Industria y Comercio , MIC (Ministry of Industry and 
Trade) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
 Centro de Refere ncia de la OMC 
Dirección de Organismos Económicos Multilaterales 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Palma casi 15 de Agosto Nº 594 
Asunción, Paraguay 
Tel.: (+595) 21-493 657 Email: snin@mre.gov.py  
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): Textile 
products 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document: Proyecto de 
Reglamento Técnico sobre etiquetado de productos textiles y su evaluación de la 
conformidad y modificación parcial del Art.1 de la Resolución Nº 258/04  (Draft Technical 
Regulation on the labelling and conformity assessment of textile products, and partial 
amendment to Article 1 of Resolution No. 258/04) (23 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content: The notified draft Technical Regulation seeks to establish the 
conformity assessment procedure for the "Techni cal Regulation on the labelling of textile 
products". 
The draft text will apply to the labelling an d marking of textile products. It establishes 
requirements concerning the information displayed on labels and the verification of such 
information for products of domestic or foreign origin that are to be marketed in 
Paraguay. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Consumer protection G/TBT/N/PRY/75 
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  8. Relevant documents: Res. GMC/Nº 33/07 "Reglamento Técnico Mercosur sobre 
Etiquetado de Productos Textiles"  (Common Market Group Resolution No. 33/07, 
"MERCOSUR Technical Regulation on the labelling of textile products"); 
Res. MIC Nº 258/2004 "Por la cual se reglamenta y se declara de cumplimiento 
obligatorio la presentación de la Declaración Jurada de aquellos productos que al importar no cuentan en las etiquetas con el nombre y la dirección del importador"  (MIC Resolution 
No. 258/2004 "regulating and declaring mandat ory the submission of a sworn declaration 
for imported products which do not display the name and address of the importer on their labels"). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   2014 
2014 
10. Final date for comments: The Paraguayan authorities will respond to requests for 
documents and receive any relevant comments in the 30 days following notification. 
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresse s, if available, of other body: Unidad de 
Coordinación del SNIN, del Ministerio de Industria y Comercio  (Coordination Unit of the 
National Information and Notification System  of the Ministry of Industry and Trade) 
Avda. Mariscal F. López 3333 
Asunción, Paraguay Tel.: (+595) 21-616 3284 Fax: (+595) 21-616 3084 
Email: snin@mic.gov.py  
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