WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/10.7/N/109 
22 August 2011  
 (11-4165) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
AGREEMENT REACHED BY A MEMBER WITH ANOTHER COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES 
ON ISSUES RELATED TO TECHNICAL REGULATIONS, STANDARDS 
OR CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES 
 
Notification 
   Under Article 10.7 of the Agreement "Whenever a Member has reached an agreement with any other country or countries on issues related to  technical regulations, standards or conformity 
assessment procedures which may have a significant effect on trade, at least one Member party to the 
agreement shall notify other Members through the Secr etariat of the products to be covered by the 
agreement and include a brief description of th e agreement."  The following notification under 
Article 10.7 has been received.   
1. Member notifying:  MEXICO  
2. Title of the bilateral or plurilateral Agreement:  Mutual Recognition Agreement 
between the Government of the United Stat es of America and the Government of the 
United Mexican States for Conformity Assessment of Telecommunications Equipment.  
3. Parties to the Agreement:  Mexico and the United States   
4. Date of entry into force of Agreement:  10 June 2011  
5. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading):  
The Agreement applies to conformity assessment of equipment that may be attached to a 
public telecommunications network and other equipment subject to telecommunications 
regulation, including wire and wireless equipmen t, and terrestrial and satellite equipment, 
whether or not connected to a public teleco mmunications network.  Equipment which can 
only be connected behind devices providing adequate network protection for a public 
telecommunications network may be excluded from the scope of testing it applies to 
network terminal attachment.  G/TBT/10.7/N/109 
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  6. Subject matter covered by the Agreement  (technical regulations, standards or 
conformity assessment procedures):  
 47 CFR Part 2 - Frequency Allocations a nd Radio Treaty Matters; General Rules and 
Regulations;  
 47 CFR Part 11 - Emergency Alert Systems (EAS); 
 47 CFR Part 15 - Radi o Frequency Devices; 
 47 CFR Part 18 - Industrial, Scientific, and Medical Equipment; 
 47 CFR Part 20 - Commercial Mobile Radio Services; 
 47 CFR Part 22 - Public Mobile Services; 
 47 CFR Part 24 - Personal Communications Services; 
 47 CFR Part 25 - Satellite Communications; 
 47 CFR Part 27  - Miscellaneous Wireless Communications Services; 
 47 CFR Part 68 - Telephone Terminal Equipment; 
 47 CFR Part 73 - Radio Broadcast Services; 
 47 CFR Part 74 - Experimental Radio, Auxiliary, Special Broadcast and Other 
Program Distributional Services; 
 47 FR Part 78 - Cable Television Relay Service; 
 47 CFR Part 80 - Stations in the Maritime Services; 
 47 CFR Part 87 - Aviation Services; 
 47 CFR Part 90 - Private Land Mobile Radio Services; 
 47 CFR Part 95 - Personal Radio Services; 
 47 CFR Part 97 - Amateur Radio Service; 
 47 CFR Part 101 - Fixed Microwave Services; 
 TIA-968-B (22 September 2009), Teleco mmunications - Telephone Terminal 
Equipment - Technical Requirements for Connection of Terminal Equipment to the Telephone Network; 
 NOM-083-SCT1-2002, "Telecommunications - Radio communication - Technical 
specifications for transmitting equipment used in one way mobile radiolocation 
services"; 
 NOM-084-SCT1-2002, "Telecommunications - Radiocommunication - Technical 
specifications of transmitting equipment used  in specialized fleet radiocommunication 
mobile services" (trunking); 
 NOM-088/1-SCT1-2002, "Telecommunications - Radiocommunication - Microwave 
equipment for multi-channel systems in the fixed service point to point and point to multipoint - Part 1: Radio multiple access"; 
 NOM-088/2-SCT1-2002, "Telecommunications - Radiocommunication - Microwave 
equipment for multi-channel systems in the fixed service point to point and point to multipoint - Part 2: Transport"; 
 NOM-151-SCT1-1999, "Public network in terface for terminal equipment"; 
 NOM-152-SCT1-1999, "Digital interface to public networks (2.048 kbps digital 
interface)"; 
 NOM-121-SCT1-2009, "Telecommunications - Radicommunication - Radio-
communication systems employing spread spectrum techniques - radiocommunication equipment with frequency hopping and digita l modulation operating in the bands 902-
928 MHz, 2400-2483.5 MHz and 5725-5850 MH z - specifications, limits and test 
methods".  G/TBT/10.7/N/109 
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  7. Description of measures of Agreement:  The Agreement is intended to streamline 
conformity assessment for a wide range of telecommunications and telecommunications-
related equipment and thereby to facilitate trade between the Parties.  The Agreement 
provides for the mutual recognition by the Parties of testing laboratories and mutual acceptance of the results of testing undertaken  by recognized testing laboratories in 
assessing conformity of equipment to those technical requirements, legislative and 
regulatory provisions, and administrative a rrangements that a Party has specified in 
Annex I of the Agreement pertaining to the t esting of equipment with respect to which 
compliance is mandatory.  
For greater clarity, the Parties note that the Agreement shall not cover conformity 
assessment related to the electrical safety of telecommunications equipment or homologation. 
The Agreement provides for a transition period of 18 months following the date of entry 
into force, during which time the Parties w ill jointly undertake a confidence building work 
program in order to build trust and confiden ce in the Agreement.  During the transition 
period, neither Party will be required to accept test reports from testing laboratories of the 
other Party. 
8. Further information available from:   
http://www.ustr.gov/webfm_send/2884  
http://dof.gob.mx/index.php? year=2011&month=07&day=28  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/MEX/11_2588_00_s.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/MEX/11_2588_00_e.pdf