. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/PER/19 
11 July 2008 
 (08-3366) 
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:   PERU
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de la Producción  – PRODUCE (Ministry of Production) 
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:    
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo  – MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and 
Tourism) 
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):  
6401: Waterproof footwear with outer soles and uppers of rubber or of plastics, the uppers 
of which are neither fixed to the sole no r assembled by stitching, riveting, nailing, 
screwing, plugging or similar processes. 
6402: Other footwear with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics. 
6403: Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and 
uppers of leather. 
6404: Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and 
uppers of textile materials. 
6405: Other footwear. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Reglamento Técnico de Etiquetado de Calzado  (Draft Technical Regulation for the 
Labelling of Footwear) (9 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   This draft technical regula tion consists of 8 articles, 
3 supplementary and final provisions and one  annex, covering the minimum requirements 
for labelling applicable to all kinds of footwear. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
 To inform consumers and prevent practices likely to mislead them. 
8. Relevant documents:   Publication in which the regulation will appear once it has been 
adopted:  Official Journal El Peruano . G/TBT/N/PER/19 
Page 2  
 
  9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined. 
6 months after official publication. 
10. Final date for comments:   6 October 2008 
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: 
http://www.comunidadandina.org/SIRT 
National Notification Authority 
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo – MINCETUR 
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 – Urb. Corpac – Lima 27 – Perú 
Tel.: +(51-1) 513 6100 Ext. 8040 Fax: +(51-1) 513 6100 Ext. 8002 E-mail: otc@mincetur.gob.pe 
National Enquiry Point 
Comisión de Reglamentos Técnicos y Comerciales 
Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual – INDECOPI Calle de la Prosa Nº 138 – Lima 41 – Perú Tel.: +(51-1) 224 7800 – Ext. 1261 Fax: +(51-1) 224 7800 – Ext. 1329 
E-mail: tbt-enquiry@indecopi.gob.pe 
or address, telephone and fax numbers, email and web site addresses, if available, of 
other body: 
Ministerio de la Producción – PRODUCE 
Vice Ministerio de Industria 
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 – Urb. Corpac – Lima 27 – Perú 
Tel.: +(51-1) 616 2222 – Ext. 818 - 228 Fax: +(51-1) 616 2222 – Ext. 805 E-mail: jbutron@produce.gob.pe 
and 
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