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Ref : EIC 414/2

25 March 2013

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 244/2013

Chile : Extension of Compliance Date of Test Protocol for Certain Household Products and Lamp Ballasts

The trade was informed via Commercial Information Circular No. 618/2012 of 7 August 2012 that the Chilean government updated the test protocol for certification of certain domestically manufactured or imported household products. The Chilean government issued an Exempt Resolution No. 2332/2012 in February 2013 to extend the compliance date for the following products:

Products Compliance Date
juice makers 31 January 2013
food grinders 28 February 2013
mixers 29 March 2013
tin openers, knife sharpeners, butter kneaders, sieves, knives, liquidisers, multi-use machines, machines used for cutting green beans, ice-cream makers, bread/cheese/meat slicing machines, potato peelers and cheese graters 30 April 2013

2.The Chilean government has also extended  the compliance date from 2 January 2013 to 1 September 2013 for certain lamp ballasts vide Exempt Resolution No. 2439/2012 issued in February 2013, to comply with the standards IEC 61347-2-9:2006, IEC 61347-1:2007 and IEC 60923:2006 in accordance with test protocol PE No. 5/10.  Such products include ballasts for discharge lamps of high pressure sodium, low pressure sodium, high pressure mercury and/or metal halides.

3.For details, traders are advised to consult their importers in Chile and/or the above Chilean Exempt Resolution (in Spanish), which are available at.

Exempt Resolution No. 2332/2012:
http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1048695&buscar=resolucion+2332

Exempt Resolution No. 2439/2012:
http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1048696&buscar=resolucion+2439.

ENQUIRIES

4.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.