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Ref : EIC 413/2

8 March 2013

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 207/2013

Brazil : Technical Standards for Various Products

The National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO) of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade of Brazil issued Decrees in December 2012 and January 2013 to establish the technical standards and compliance date for various products:

  1. Children's high chairs
The technical standard is applicable to high chairs of freestanding type, with or without a tray, hook-on type, and high chairs that can be converted into other items.
  1. Ceramic tiles and concrete tiles
  Compliance Date Application Criteria
(i) 10 January 2014 manufacture and import of such products
(ii) 10 April 2014 domestic sale of such products by manufacturers and importers
(iii) 10 July 2014 domestic sale of such products by all other parties
  1. Low pressure regulators for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)
The technical standard is applicable to low pressure regulators for LPG with a flow capacity of up to four kilogrammes per hour.

2.For details of the above technical standards, traders are advised to consult their importers in Brazil and/or the above Brazilian Decrees (in Portuguese), which are available at:

Decree No. 683/2012 (relevant to item (a) above):
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC001952.pdf

Decree No. 5/2013 (relevant to item (b) above):
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC001955.pdf

Decree No. 6/2013 (relevant to item (c) above):
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC001956.pdf.

ENQUIRIES

3.For enquiries about the content of this circular, please contact Miss S Y TANG at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Cindy CHENG)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry



Note: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.