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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/228 
10 April 2012 
 (12-1853) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated 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 and e-mail 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 Normalizac ión de Seguridad al Usuario, Información 
Comercial y Prácticas de Comercio  (National Advisory Committee on Standardization for 
User Safety, Commercial Information and Trade Practices) Av. Puente de Tecamachalco No. 6 Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco Sección Fuentes, Naucalpan de Juárez 
Código postal 53950, Estado de México 
Tel.: 5729-9100, Ext. 43222 Fax: 5520-9715 E-mail: Rodrigo.arregui@economia.gob.mx  
 maria.medinam@economia.gob.mx  
 salvador.franco@economia.gob.mx 
Website: http://www.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):   Agricultural and 
fisheries products (International Classifi cation for Standards (ICS) code 65.150) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
PROY-NOM-187-SCFI-2012, Información comercial sobre la calidad de los 
productos agropecuarios y pesqueros  (Draft Mexican Official 
Standard PROY-NOM-187-SCFI-2012:  Comme rcial information on the quality of 
agricultural and fisheries products) (4 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Standard applies to agricultural and fisheries 
products marketed in Mexican national territory and intended for distribution and sales centres or the end consumer. G/TBT/N/MEX/228 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
To establish the commercial information on qua lity grading that must be included on the 
labels of agricultural and fisheries products marketed in Mexican national territory and 
declared to be consistent with a partic ular standard or technical specification.   
8. Relevant documents:   -  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not applicable 
180, 360 and 540 calendar days after publication 
as a final Standard in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   1 June 2012 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and e-mail and website addresses, if available, of other body: 
Secretaría de Economía 
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad 
Dirección General de Normas 
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729-9100, Ext. 43217 Fax: (+52) 55 5520-9715 E-mail: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/comunidad- negocios/normalizacion/catalogo-
mexicano-de-normas 
 
Text available online at:  http://dof.gob.mx/index.php?year=2012&month=04&day=03  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/MEX/12_1243_00_s.pdf