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ArgentinaUpdated: check whether it is now adopted or in force

Air conditioning machines – Argentina

Official title

Uso Racional y Eficiente de la Energía en Acondicionadores de aire (Rational and efficient use of energy in air conditioners) (3 pages, in Spanish);

Argentina issued an addendum on 3 November 2026 to the earlier TBT notification G/TBT/N/ARG/283. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 22 November 2013.

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At a glance

Products

Air conditioners

HS codes
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 841510 Air conditioning machines designed to be fixed to a window, wall, ceiling or floor, self-contained or 'split-system'
    • 841520 Air conditioning machines of a kind used for persons, in motor vehicles
    • 841581 Air conditioning machines incorporating a refrigerating unit and a valve for reversal of the cooling-heat cycle 'reversible heat pumps' (excl. of a kind used…
    • 841582 Air conditioning machines incorporating a refrigerating unit but without a valve for reversal of the cooling-heat cycle (excl. of a kind used for persons in…
Notifying member
Argentina
Status
Updated: check whether it is now adopted or in force
Objectives
  • Protection of the environment
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/ARG/283Latest notice: G/TBT/N/ARG/283/Add.1

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Not set in the notification
Proposed adoption
Proposed entry into force

What the notification says

Latest notice (⁨G/TBT/N/ARG/283/Add.1⁩, 3 November 2026)

Rational and efficient use of energy in air conditioners

Please be advised that Secretariat of Energy Resolution No. 426/2025 amends Secretariat of Energy Resolution No. 814/2013, notified in document G/TBT/N/ARG/283, and the amendment thereto (Resolution No. 228/2014), by updating the minimum energy efficiency levels applicable to air conditioning equipment covered by Secretariat of Industry and Trade (SIyC) Resolution No. 438/2024, as amended (G/TBT/N/ARG/459 and G/TBT/N/ARG/459/Add.1). Resolution No. 814/2013 was in turn amended by Secretariat of Energy Resolution No. 242/2026 with regard to air conditioners operating in cooling mode. The provisions of Resolutions No. 426/2025 and No. 242/2026 will take effect in accordance with the time frames established in Secretariat of Industry, Trade, and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Resolution No. 408/2026.Related legislation is detailed below:1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a PDF attachment, or other information on where the text of the final/modified measure and/or interpretative guidance can be obtained.G/TBT/N/ARG/283/Add.1- 2 - Secretariat of Energy (SE) Resolution No. 426/2025: of Energy (SE) Resolution No. 242/2026: of Industry, Trade, and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SICPyME) Resolution No. 408/2026: of Industry and Trade (SIyC) Resolution No. 438/2024, as amended (G/TBT/N/ARG/459 and 459/Add.1): Focal OTC-OMC Argentina (Argentine TBT-WTO Focal Point)Dirección Nacional de Reglamentos Técnicos (National Technical Regulation…

The notified text implements the maximum energy consumption levels and/or minimum energy efficiency levels for the marketing in Argentina of air conditioners.;It supplements Resolution ex-SICyM No. 319/1999, as amended by Resolution ex-SCT No. 35/2005, notified in documents G/TBT/Notif.99/498 and G/TBT/Notif.99/498/Add.1 respectively.;Updated text available at:;

Notices on this measure

Every notice about this measure published here, newest first. Each one is the notifying member's own text.

  1. AddendumG/TBT/N/ARG/283/Add.1

    Rational and efficient use of energy in air conditioners

    Please be advised that Secretariat of Energy Resolution No. 426/2025 amends Secretariat of Energy Resolution No. 814/2013, notified in document G/TBT/N/ARG/283, and the amendment thereto (Resolution No. 228/2014), by updating the minimum energy efficiency levels applicable to air conditioning equipment covered by Secretariat of Industry and Trade (SIyC) Resolution No. 438/2024, as amended (G/TBT/N/ARG/459 and G/TBT/N/ARG/459/Add.1). Resolution No. 814/2013 was in turn amended by Secretariat of Energy Resolution No. 242/2026 with regard to air conditioners operating in cooling mode. The provisions of Resolutions No. 426/2025 and No. 242/2026 will take effect in accordance with the time frames established in Secretariat of Industry, Trade, and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Resolution No. 408/2026.Related legislation is detailed below:1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a PDF attachment, or other information on where the text of the final/modified measure and/or interpretative guidance can be obtained.G/TBT/N/ARG/283/Add.1- 2 - Secretariat of Energy (SE) Resolution No. 426/2025: of Energy (SE) Resolution No. 242/2026: of Industry, Trade, and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SICPyME) Resolution No. 408/2026: of Industry and Trade (SIyC) Resolution No. 438/2024, as amended (G/TBT/N/ARG/459 and 459/Add.1): Focal OTC-OMC Argentina (Argentine TBT-WTO Focal Point)Dirección Nacional de Reglamentos Técnicos (National Technical Regulation…

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)Notified document (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)Notified document (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)

  2. Regular notificationG/TBT/N/ARG/283

    Uso Racional y Eficiente de la Energía en Acondicionadores de aire (Rational and efficient use of energy in air conditioners) (3 pages, in Spanish);

    The notified text implements the maximum energy consumption levels and/or minimum energy efficiency levels for the marketing in Argentina of air conditioners.;It supplements Resolution ex-SICyM No. 319/1999, as amended by Resolution ex-SCT No. 35/2005, notified in documents G/TBT/Notif.99/498 and G/TBT/Notif.99/498/Add.1 respectively.;Updated text available at:;

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)Notified document (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)

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