G/TBT/N/MEX/451  
15 March  2019 
(19-1585) 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)  
located at Calle Pachuca 189, Colonia  Condesa  
Demarcación Territorial Cuauhtémoc  
Ciudad de México, C.P. 06140  
Tel.: 5729 9100, Ext. 43245, Fax : 5520 9715  
Email: emeterio.mosso@economia.gob.mx  and dgn.jorge@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) : "Ámbar 
de Chiapas", HS subheading 130190  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-152-SCFI-2018, ámbar de Chiapas -especificaciones 
y métodos  de prueba (cancelará a la nom -152-scfi-2003)  (Draft Mexican Official Standard 
PROY -NOM-152-SCFI-2018: "Ámbar de Chiapas" - specifications and test methods 
(cancelling Mexican Official Standard NOM -152-SCFI-2003)) (19 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard has been prepared 
to lay out requirements regarding the appellation of origin "Ámbar de Chiapas", which is 
owned by the Mexican State, and in cooperation with the amber sector, as long as a 
Conformity A ssessment Body is constituted, to verify the processing and marketing 
processes of this non -renewable resource under the Industrial Property Law . The draft is 
required to be issued under the General Declaration on Protection of the Appellation of 
Origin "Á mbar de Chiapas", published in the Official Journal on 1 5 November 2 000, and 
paragraph XV of Article 40 of the Federal Law on Metrology and Standardization.  
The draft Standard applies to "Ámbar de Chiapas" in its raw form and to products made 
with it, such  as jewellery, works of art and religious objects, among others, and when it 
undergoes the physical processing later described, with extraction of the raw material 
indicated in the General Declaration on Protection of the Appellation of Origin "Ámbar de 
Chiapas".  G/TBT/N/MEX/451  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes specifications, test 
methods and conformity assessment procedures for "Ámbar de Chiapas" during its 
physical processing and marketing.  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Mexican Official Standard NOM -030-SCFI-2006, Información comercial -
Declaración de cantidad en la etiqueta -Especificaciones , published in the Official 
Journal on 6 November 2 006. 
• Mexican Official  Standard NOM -106-SCFI-2017, Características de diseño y 
condiciones de uso de la Contraseña Oficial , published in the Official Journal on 
8 September 2 017. 
• Mexican Standard NMX -Z-12/2-1987, Muestreo para la inspección por atributos -
Parte 2 : Métodos de mue streo tablas y gráficas  (this Standard cancels Mexican 
Standard s NMX-Z-12/2-1975 and NMX -Z-12/3-1975), published in the Official 
Journal on 2 8 October 1 987. 
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : To be determined  (the notified draft Standard will 
enter into force 60 calendar days after the date of its publication)  
10. Final date for comments : 10 May 2 019 
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and webs ite addresses, if available, of other body:  
Secretaría de Economía  (Ministry of the Economy)  
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.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5552469&fecha=11/03/2019  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/MEX/19_1485_00_s.pdf