RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/W/108
11 May 1999
(99-1926)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
COMMUNICATION FROM MEXICO
The following communication dated 27 April, has been received from the delegation of
Mexico with the request 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 National Standardization Programme 1999 in the
Official Journal of the Federation of 14 April 1999.
The Programme in question represents the titles of the Mexican official standards ("technical
regulations") and the Mexican standards ("voluntary standards") which the Government of Mexicoplans 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 Committee.
This information is offered 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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