NOM-192 Covers Monitors, TVs, Set Top Boxes, and Decoders in Mexico

Are you importing or selling LCD monitors, television sets, set-top boxes or decoders in Mexico? Then your product will need to satisfy the requirements laid out in NOM-192-SCFI/SCT1-2013.

The regulation ensures that TVs can receive, tune in, and reproduce DTT, HDTV, and SDTV signals.

NOM-192 specifies that TV decoders can receive, tune, and reproduce signals transmitted according to ATSC A/53 and A/72 standards. Decoder outputs must also reproduce signals in analog NTSC/M format.

Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards govern digital television transmission over cable, broadcast, and satellite networks in North America (Mexico, the U.S., and Canada). ATSC mostly, but not entirely, replaced analog National Television System Committee (NTSC) standards in place since the 1950s.

Additionally, products covered by NOM-192 must comply with two other NOMs:

  • NOM-001-SCFI-1993, which is sometimes referred to as the “safety NOM” and covers household electronic devices powered by different electric power sources
  • NOM-024-SCFI-2013, which covers packaging, instructions, and warranty information for electronic, electrical, and household appliances

Please contact us for information about the sample requirements and testing (or “protocol verification”) process for NOM-192 and NOM-001. In fact, let us know if you have any questions about the homologation of electrical, electronic, and telecommunications goods in Latin America. We’re well equipped to take your products from here to there.

Mexico’s New NOM-001 Takes Effect in 2020

An updated NOM-001 will come into force in Mexico starting May 14, 2020.

Known formally as NOM-001-SCFI-2018, the new regulation replaces NOM-001-SCFI-1993. (NOM stands for “Norma Oficial Mexicana,” or Official Mexican Standard.)

 

NOM-001 covers the safety requirements for electronic devices manufactured, imported, commercialized, distributed, or leased in Mexico.

It applies to electronic equipment and accessories that use single-phase supply voltages up to 277 V AC at 60 Hz and/or three-phase voltages up to 480 V AC between lines at 60 Hz — as well as other energy sources, including batteries, energy accumulators, self-generation, and alternative power sources up to 500 V DC.

Contact us to learn more about NOM-001, and other certification matters in Mexico and Latin America.

NOM-029: Regulating Energy Efficiency in Mexico

In addition to requiring NOM-001 certification, all external power supplies that are sold separately in Mexico require a certification known as NOM-029.

A NOM-029 certification ensures that Mexico’s energy efficiency standards have been met. NOM-029 is sometimes referred to more completely as NOM-029 ENER-2017, as it was last updated in 2017 (with an effective date of April 2018).

However, if a power supply (such as a charging cord for a cell phone) is packaged and sold as an accessory along with the main product, then it does not need additional NOM-029 certification. In that case, the cord is covered by the phone’s overall certification.

When it is needed, a NOM-029 certification is obtained through test evaluation. It is applicable for all power supplies intended to convert electrical voltage from alternating current (AC) to a single level of voltage or direct current (DC), with a maximum output power of 250W or less.

Power supplies that allow switching to manual output voltage levels, independent from the product, also require testing and certification.

NOM-029 is not applicable in some instances. If your electronic device was previously approved under NOM-019-SCFI-1997 or NOM-001-SCFI-1993, its power supply will not require the additional certification of NOM-029.

NOMs (“Norma Oficial Mexicana” or Official Mexican Standard) detail the form, format, and documentation that must be maintained for legal compliance.

Contact LARCG for more information regarding this or any other Latin America certification issue, whether in Mexico, Central America, South America, or the Caribbean.

Mexico to Require Tariff Codes on All NOM Safety Certificates

As of June 30, 2019, the Mexican government requires that a product’s tariff code (its “fracción arancelaria”) be displayed on its NOM-001, NOM-003, or NOM-019 safety certificate. (The tariff code is also sometimes referred to as the “HS code,” “HTS code,” or “harmonized code.”)

Until now a product’s tariff/harmonized/HS/HTS code was not printed on the NOM certificate; the code was just included in the underlying application paperwork.

Of Mexico’s two certificate-issuing agencies, NYCE already includes the code on the new certificates it issues. The other agency, ANCE, will start adding the code to its new certificates by the end of May.

If your product’s NOM certificate does not feature the product’s tariff code, you will need to request an updated certificate by June 30; the new cert must be obtained within 90 days of requested date.

This is a new development (first communicated by the agencies on May 2). We are working with NYCE and ANCE to get updated certificates for our clients as soon as possible, subject to the agencies’ workload.

Contact LARCG if you think you have NOM-001, NOM-003, or NOM-019 safety certificates that will be invalid because of missing tariff code, or other reason. We can help with this issue, or any other regarding Latin America certification.

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