RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/W/122
21 October 1999
(99-4558)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
COMMUNICATION FROM MEXICO
The following communication dated 23 September 1999, has been received from the
delegation of Mexico with the request that it be circulated to Members of the Committee.
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This is to inform you that the Ministry of Trade and Industrial Development has, through the
General Directorate of Standards, published the Supplement to the National Standardization
Programme 1999 in the Official Journal of the Federation of 1 September 1999.
The Supplement lists the titles of the Mexican official standards ("technical regulations") and
Mexican standards ("voluntary standards") which the Government of Mexico plans to draw up duringthe present year, in addition to those contained in the Progamme notified on 27 April 1999.
All the draft standards prepared on the basis of this Supplement will, in due course, be
published in the Official Journal of the Federation and, where appropriate, notified to the Committee.
This information is provided for purposes of  transparency, without prejudice to the trade
effects that the future standards may have on other Members of the WTO.
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