ECU/544
WTO/TBT
EC Ecuador
  • 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 40 - Rubber and articles thereof
  • 42 - Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)
  • 54 - Man-made filaments; strip and the like of man-made textile materials
  • 56 - Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof
  • 63 - Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
  • 73 - Articles of iron or steel
  • 76 - Aluminium and articles thereof
  • 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
  • 95 - Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof
2024-08-29
2024-07-03

Articles of apparel and clothing accessories produced by the stitching or sticking together of plastic sheeting, incl. gloves, mittens and mitts (excl. goods of 9619) (HS code: 392620); Rubber and articles thereof (HS code: 40); Belts and bandoliers, of leather or composition leather (HS code: 420330); Clothing accessories of leather or composition leather (excl. gloves, mittens and mitts, belts, bandoliers, footwear and headgear and parts thereof, and goods of chapter 95 [e.g. shin guards, fencing masks]) (HS code: 420340); Articles of yarn, strip or the like of heading 5404 or 5405, twine, cordage, rope or cables, not elsewhere specified or included (HS code: 5609); Made-up articles of textile materials, incl. dress patterns, n.e.s. (HS code: 630790); Plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel (excl. electrically insulated products) (HS code: 731290); Threaded screws and bolts, of iron or steel, whether or not with their nuts and washers (excl. coach screws and other wood screws; screw hooks and screw rings; self-tapping screws; lag screws, threaded metallic bungs and threaded bung covers) (HS code: 731815); Non-threaded fasteners, of iron or steel, n.e.s. (HS code: 731829); Structures and parts of structures, of aluminium, n.e.s., and plates, rods, profiles, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures, of aluminium, n.e.s. (excl. prefabricated buildings of heading 9406, doors and windows and their frames and thresholds for doors) (HS code: 761090)

Proyecto de Segunda Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE 217 (2R) "Equipos de protección individual contra caídas de altura" (Draft second revision (2R) of Ecuadorian Technical Regulation PRTE No. 217: "Personal protective equipment used to prevent falls from a height") (11 pages, in Spanish)

The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation applies to the following products, whether domestic or imported, marketed in Ecuador:

·        Personal protective equipment (PPE): belts for work positioning and restraint.

·        Personal protective equipment (PPE) used to prevent falls from a height: safety harnesses.

·        Connection subsystems: lanyards, energy absorbers, retractable-type fall arresters and connectors supplied with PPE used to prevent falls from a height.

·        Anchor devices for use solely with personal protective equipment used to prevent falls from a height.