WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ARG/28
3 October 2001
(01-4755)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
Member to Agreement notifying:   ARGENTINA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Secretariat for Industry
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:   Idem , Enquiry
Point
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [     ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 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):   Cellular mobile radio
equipment
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Secretariat for
Industry Resolution No. 18/2001 (5 pages, in Spanish)
6. Description of content:   Approval of the sequence of operations that go into the process of
manufacturing cellular mobile radio equipment as well as the corresponding list of
minimum inputs, the accessories considered for the certification of origin and the inputs or
parts which are required to be domestically produced starting three months after the
manufacturing of each model, begins.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:   
The need to set up production processes that comply with the regime provided for
under Law No. 19.640.
8. Relevant documents:   Law No. 19.640, Decree No. 1737/93 and Decree No. 522/95
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:  24 May 2001
10. Final date for comments:           
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:
Punto Focal de la Republica Argentina
Dirección Nacional de Comercio Interior
Avda. J.A. Roca 651 piso4°
Sector 22 (1322) Buenos Aires
Fax:  54 11 4349 4038
Tel:  54 11 4349 4037E-mail:  vcamal@secind.mecon.gov.ar