RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/W/157
19 April 2001
(01-1976)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
COMMUNICATION FROM MEXICO
The following communication, dated 27 March 2001, has been received from the delegation
of Mexico with the request that it be circulated to Members of the Committee.
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The Ministry of Economy, through the General Directorate of Standards, published the
National Standardization Programme 2001 in the Official Journal of the Federation of 12 March 2001.
The National Standardization Programme 2001 lists the titles of the Mexican official
standards ("Technical Regulations") and Mexican standards ("Voluntary Standards"), which the
Government of Mexico plans to draw up during the present year.
All the draft standards prepared on the basis of this programme will, in due course, be
published in the Official Journal of the Federation and, where appropriate, notified to the Secretariat
of the World Trade Organization ("Central Registry of Notifications").
This notification is provided for purposes of transparency, without prejudice to the trade
effects that the standards may have on other parties.
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