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ColombiaProposed measure, open for comments

Proposed measure: Colombia

Draft Resolution establishing the procedure and administrative formalities for the authorization of factories located abroad that export to Colombia foods of animal origin posing a high risk to public health

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Proyecto de resolución 'Por la cual se establece el procedimiento y los trámites administrativos para la habilitación de fábricas ubicadas en el exterior que exporten a Colombia alimentos de mayor riesgo en salud pública de origen animal' (Draft Resolution establishing the procedure and administrative formalities for the authorization of factories located abroad that export to Colombia foods of animal origin posing a high risk to public health);

Colombia notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 19 October 2026. Comments are open until 18 December 2026.

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Products

Foods of animal origin posing a high risk to public health (milk and milk products; meat products; fish and fish products; and egg products)

HS codes
  • 02 · Meat and edible meat offal
    • 02
All 19 codes
  • 03 · Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
    • 0302 Fish, fresh or chilled (excl. fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304)
    • 0303 Frozen fish (excl. fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304)
    • 0304 Fish fillets and other fish meat, whether or not minced, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 0305 Fish, fit for human consumption, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, fit for human consumption, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process
    • 0306 Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked, incl. crustaceans in shell cooked by steaming or…
    • 0307 Molluscs, fit for human consumption, even smoked, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine
    • 0308 Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked
    • 0309 Flours, meals and pellets of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, fit for human consumption
  • 04 · Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
    • 0401 Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
    • 0402 Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
    • 0403 Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or flavoured or containing…
    • 0404 Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter; products consisting of natural milk constituents, whether or not…
    • 0405 Butter, incl. dehydrated butter and ghee, and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads
    • 0406 Cheese and curd
    • 0407 Birds' eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked
    • 0408 Birds' eggs, not in shell, and egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, moulded, frozen or otherwise preserved, whether or not…
  • 16 · Meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects; preparations thereof
    • 16 PREPARATIONS OF MEAT, OF FISH, OF CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS OR OTHER AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES, OR OF INSECTS
  • 19 · Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
    • 1901 Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing < 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a…
Notifying member
Colombia
Status
Proposed measure, open for comments
Objectives
  • Food safety
  • Protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/COL/436
Keywords
Food safety, Human health, Pests

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Open until 18 December 2026
Proposed adoption
Six months from the date of publication in the Official Journal.
Proposed entry into force
Six months from the date of publication in the Official Journal.

How to comment

Comments on a notification go from government to government. If this measure affects your exports, send your comments to your country's WTO SPS enquiry point before 18 December 2026, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/COL/436 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to Colombia.

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What the notification says

The notified draft Resolution establishes the procedure and administrative formalities to be completed with the National Institute for Food and Drug Surveillance (INVIMA) for the authorization of food processing plants located abroad that export to Colombia foods of animal origin posing a high risk to public health (milk and milk products; meat products; fish and fish products; and egg products). The procedure and administrative formalities established in the notified Resolution apply to facilities located abroad that export these foods to Colombia.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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