WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/MEX/184
15 May 2002
(02-2689)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   MEXICO
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and
Food
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable).
Plants and plant products and by-products.
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
5. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Changes to Mexican Official
Standard NOM-005-FITO-1995 Establishing External Quarantine to Prevent the Introduction
of the Khapra Beetle  (one page, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:
Technical studies and analyses of the phytosanitary status of rice from Thailand were
conducted and established that there were adequate phytosanitary measures to mitigate the
possible phytosanitary risk associated with the importation of this product.
On the strength of the above, the following document has been issued:
CHANGES TO MEXICAN OFFICIAL  STANDARD NOM-005-FITO-1995
ESTABLISHING EXTERNAL QUARANTINE  TO PREVENT TH E INTRODUCTION
OF THE KHAPRA BEETLE
Paragraph 4.1 concerning products subject to complete quarantine has been amended to read
as follows:
4.1. Products subject to complete quarantine
The introduction and transport through Mexico to a third-country destination of the plant
products listed below, originating and consigned from the following countries, are prohibited:
Products
• Beans • Rape or colza
• Wheat • Sunflower
• Maize • Cotton
• Rice • Hemp
• Sorghum
• Soya beans (soya)
• FlaxG/SPS/N/MEX/184
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6. Description of content:   (cont'd)
Europe
• Kingdom of Spain • Slovak Republic
• Czech Republic • Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• Republic of Austria • Hellenic Republic
Africa
• Burkina Faso • Republic of the Niger
• Socialist Peo ple's Lib yan Arab
Jamahiriya• Republic of Senegal
• Kingdom of Morocco • Republic of Tunisia
• Arab Republic of Egypt • Republic of Zambia
• People's Democratic Re public of
Algeria• Republic of Zimbabwe
• Somali Democratic Republic • Republic of the Sudan
• Republic of the Gambia • Federal Republic of Nigeria
• Republic of Côte d'Ivoire • Islamic Republic of Mauritania
• Republic of Mali • Republic of Angola
• Republic of Mozambique
Asia
• State of Israel • Republic of Yemen
• Japan • Islamic Republic of Iran
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia • Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• Syrian Arab Republic • Lebanese Republic
• Islamic State of Afghanistan • Republic of Korea
• Republic of Cyprus • People's Republic of Bangladesh
• Republic of Iraq • Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
• Republic of India • Union of Myanmar
• Republic of Turkey • Republic of Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Republic of the Philippines
Group 1
Products
• Nutmeg • Copal
• Wheat or meslin flour • Natural gums, resins, gum resins and balsams
• Rye flour
• Maize (corn) flour • Sweet biscuits, waffles and wafers
• Rice flour • 
• Cereal flours • Mustard flour
• Flour, meal and powder of
potatoes•Oil cakes and other solid residues, whether o r
not ground or in the form of pellets, resultin g
from the extraction of soya-bean oil
• Flour, meal and powder of dried
leguminous vegetables
• Cassava (manioc) flour • Natural rubber
• Flour, meal and powder of sago • Synthetic rubber
• Cashew flour • Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or
not a gglomerated in lo gs, bri quettes, pellets o r
similar forms (used for packaging)
• Flour, meal and powder of fruit • Brazil nuts, shelled
• Soya-bean meal • Cashew nuts, shelled
• Cotton meal • Almonds, shelled
• Sunflower meal • Walnuts, shelledG/SPS/N/MEX/184
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6. Description of content:   (cont'd)
• Flours and meals of oil seeds o r
oleaginous fruits• Dried apples
• Dried apricots (not stoned) • Dried cherries
• Dried plums • Dried fruit
• Dried pears
• Dried peaches (not stoned)
• Lucerne (alfalfa ) meal an d
pellets
• Lac
• Gum arabic
Group 2
Products
• Dried le guminous ve getables,
shelled• Cucurbit seeds
• Brazil nuts, unshelled • Lucerne (alfalfa) hay
• Cashew nuts, unshelled •Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of
Heading No. 5303 (used only)
• Almonds, unshelled • Sesame
• Walnuts, unshelled
7. Objective and rationale: [   ] food safety,  [   ] animal health,  [   ] plant protection, [     ]
protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  X ] protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [  X ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Official Journal
(Diario Oficial de la Federación ) of 15 April 2002  (available in Spanish).
10. Proposed date of adoption:   15 April 2002
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   15 April 2002
12. Final date for comments:  Not applicable
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [  X ] National notification
authority, [     ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
13. Texts available from: [  X ] National notification authority, [   ] National enquiry point or
address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Web site:  http://www.economia.gob.mx/normas   (Standards Catalogue)