G/TBT/N/MEX/427  
2 August  2018 
(18-4918) 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 : MEXICO  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible : Secretaría de Economía  (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:  
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de la Secretaría de Economía , CCONNSE 
(National Advisory Committee on Standardization of the Ministry of the Economy) Av . 
Puente de Tecamachalco Núm. 6 Col . Lomas de Tecamachalco, Sección Fuentes, Naucalpan 
de Juárez, CP. 53950, Estado de México, Tel. : 57 29 91 00  
Ext. 43244 and 43274, Fax : 55 20 97 15 or Email: sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx  and 
juan.rivera@economia.gob.mx   
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) : Units of 
measurement  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-008-SCFI-2017, Sistema General de Unidades de 
Medida (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-008-SCFI-2017: General system of 
units of measurement) (This text will cancel Mexican Official Standard NOM -008-SCFI-
2002) (49 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard contains the 
requirements for the use of units, symbols and writing style for the units of the General 
system of units of measurement, which must be observed when delivering measurement 
results in the country, and also contains appendices with information on other units of 
measurement.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the definitions, 
symbols and writing style for the units of the General system of units of  measurement, to 
be used in fields in which quantities represent properties of bodies, phenomena or 
substances of physical, chemical or biological nature, independent of their application in 
different fields, such as science, technology, industry, educatio n, health, the environment 
and trade.  G/TBT/N/MEX/427  
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  8. Relevant documents:  
 NMX-Z-055-IMNC -2009 -Vocabulario Internacional de Metrología - Conceptos 
fundamentales generales, y términos asociados (VIM) ; 
 ISO/IEC Guide 99:2007 - International vocabulary of metrology -- Basic and 
general concepts and associated terms (VIM).  
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : The notified Mexican Official Standard will enter into 
force 180 calendar days after publication as a final standard  in the Official Journal.  
10. Final date for comments : 22 September 2 018 
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)  
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad (Under -Secretariat for Competitiveness 
and Standardization)  
Dirección General de Normas  (Directorate -General of Standards)  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43244  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715 
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/comunidad -negocios/normalizacion/catalogo -
mexicano -de-normas  
Email: 
normasomc@economia.gob.mx /sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx /jose.ramosr@economia.
gob.mx  
Text available at:  
http://www.diariooficial.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5532807&fecha=24/07/2018  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/MEX/18_4156_00_s.pdf