WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ECU/4 
17 March 2005 
 
 (05-1100) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   ECUADOR
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):    
2. Agency responsible:   National Directorate of Foreign Trade Policy, Undersecretariat of 
Foreign Trade and Integration, Ministry of Fo reign Trade, Industrialization, Fisheries and 
Competitiveness/Dirección Nacional de Políticas de Comercio Exterior, Subsecretaría de Comercio Exterior e Integración, Ministerio de Comercio Exterior, Industrialización, Pesca y Competitividad 
Address:  Av.  Amazonas y Av. Eloy Alfaro 
Quito - Ecuador  Tel.:  + (593) 2 2566041/ Ext. 161 Fax:  + (593) 2 2541984 
E-mail:  abarbosa@micip.gov.ec 
Website: www.micip.gov.ec  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:    
Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización (INEN ) (Ecuadorian Standardization Institute) 
Baquerizo Moreno E8-29 y Almagro Quito - Ecuador  Tel.:  + (593) 2 2528556 / 2501885 to 2501887 
Fax:  + (593) 2 2567815 
E-mail:  inenfu@andinanet.net Website: www.inen.gov.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 numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Cement, lime and 
gypsum (HS tariff item numbers:  2523.29.00, 2523.90.00, 2522.30.00, 2522.20.00, 2520.10.00, 2520.20.00;  Intern ational Classification for Standards (ICS):  91.100.10. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Agreement of 
the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Industrialization, Fisheries and Competitiveness regarding the Ecuadorian Technical Regulation on Cement, Lime and Gypsum (15 pages, in Spanish). G/TBT/N/ECU/4 
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 6. Description of content: 
- The draft Ecuadorian Regulation notified herein establishes the minimum fitness-
for-purpose and performance requirements to be met by the following products with 
the aim of protecting human health and safety, animal and plant life and health, the environment and property a nd preventing practices likely to mislead users: 
• Portland cement 
• Blended hydraulic cements 
• Masonry cements 
• Performance specifications for hydraulic cements 
• Hydraulic hydrated lime for structural purposes 
• Hydrated lime 
• Quicklime for structural purposes 
• Gypsum for structural purposes 
 - This draft Regulation sets out the defin itions of and genera l conditions, product, 
packaging and labelling requirements and conformity assessment tests for the above products. 
 
- The draft Regulation establishes the products  which will have to demonstrate clear 
compliance with the requirements of th e following existing Ecuadorian Technical 
Standards:  NTE INEN 152, NTE INEN  246, NTE INEN 247, NTE INEN 248, 
NTE INEN 490, NTE INEN 1 806, NTE INEN 2 380. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
 Consumer health and safety. 
8. Relevant documents:    
1. Publication where the notice appears:  not indicated. 2. Proposal and basic document:  Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian 
Standardization Institu te RTE INEN 007:2005 
3. Publication in which the proposal will appear following adoption:  Registro Oficial  
(Official Journal) 
4. Relevant international/national standard s:  Technical Standard of the Ecuadorian 
Standardization Institute NTE INEN 152/American Society for Testing and 
Materials Standard ASTM C 150;  N TE INEN 246/ASTM C 141;  NTE INEN 
247/ASTM C 207;  NTE INEN 248/ASTM C 5;  NTE INEN 490/ASTM C 595;  
NTE INEN 1 806/ASTM C 91;  NTE INEN 2 80/ASTM C 1157.   
9. Proposed date of entry into force:   
Proposed date of adoption:   Six months after adoption 
90 days after circulation by the WTO Secretariat 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after circulation by the WTO Secretariat.  G/TBT/N/ECU/4 
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 11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización 
Baquerizo Moreno E8-29 y Almagro Quito – Ecuador 
 
Tel.:  + (593) 2 2528556 / 2501885 to 2501887 Fax:  + (593) 2 2567815 E-mail:  inenfu@andinanet.net Website: www.inen.gov.ec