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Refrigerators – Brazil

Official title

Ministerial Ac: Nº 463, 10th September 2012 (28 pages in Portuguese).

Brazil issued an addendum on 16 September 2026 to the earlier TBT notification G/TBT/N/BRA/513. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 15 October 2012. The comment period closed on 27 May 2021.

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At a glance

Products

Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment (HS 8418)

HS codes
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 8418 Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps; parts thereof (excl. air conditioning machines of…
Notifying member
Brazil
Status
Updated: check whether it is now adopted or in force
Objectives
  • Consumer information, labelling
  • Protection of human health or safety
  • Protection of the environment
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/BRA/513Latest notice: G/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.6

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 27 May 2021
Proposed adoption
Upon publication in the Official Journal after received comments have been taken into.
Proposed entry into force
To be determined in the final text.

How to comment

The comment period closed on 27 May 2021. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.6; it can take them up with Brazil.

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What the notification says

Latest notice (⁨G/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.6⁩, 16 September 2026)

Ordinance No. 551, 10 September 2026

National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – Inmetro, approves the Consolidated Regulation for Refrigerators and Similar Appliances, comprising the Quality Technical Regulation, the Conformity Assessment Requirements, and the Specifications for the Conformity Identification Mark—in the form of the National Energy Conservation Label (ENCE)—as set forth, respectively, in Annexes I, II, and III of this Ordinance.

Draft technical regulation which establishes technical requirements that must be met by refrigerating appliances, with a focus on security and energy efficiency.

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/BRA/513/Add.6

    Ordinance No. 551, 10 September 2026

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – Inmetro, approves the Consolidated Regulation for Refrigerators and Similar Appliances, comprising the Quality Technical Regulation, the Conformity Assessment Requirements, and the Specifications for the Conformity Identification Mark—in the form of the National Energy Conservation Label (ENCE)—as set forth, respectively, in Annexes I, II, and III of this Ordinance.

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  2. CorrigendumG/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.3/Corr.2

    Consolidation of conformity assessment requirements for refrigerators and similar.

    Rectification of Inmetro Ordinance No. 332, 2 August 2021, which approves the Conformity Assessment Requirements for Refrigerators and Similar Products - Consolidated, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 4 August 2021, pages 134 to 146, section 1.

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  3. CorrigendumG/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.3/Corr.1

    Consolidation of conformity assessment requirements for refrigerators and similar.

    Rectification of Inmetro Ordinance No. 332, 2 August 2021, which approves the Conformity Assessment Requirements for Refrigerators and Similar Products - Consolidated, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 4 August 2021, pages 134 to 146.

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  4. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.5

    Amendment of conformity assessment requirements for refrigerators and similar

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – Inmetro, issued Ordinance No. 223, 17 April 2025 that amends conformity assessment requirements for refrigerators and similar, approved by Inmetro Ordinance No. 332, 2 August 2021 notified as G/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.3.

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  5. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.4

    Amendment of conformity assessment requirements for refrigerators and similar

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro, issued Ordinance No. 266, 1 August 2023 that amends conformity assessment requirements for refrigerators and similar, approved by Inmetro Ordinance No. 332, 2 August 2021 notified as G/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.3.

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  6. CorrigendumG/TBT/N/BRA/513/Corr.1

    Rectification of item 6.1.1.1.1 of nnex II of Inmetro Ordinance No. 332, 2 August 2021, published in the Official Gazette of 4 August 2021, section 1, pages 134 to 146.

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  7. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.3

    Consolidation of conformity assessment requirements for refrigerators and similar.

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro, issued Ordinance No. 332, 02 August 2021 that approves the consolidation of conformity assessment requirements for refrigerators and similar. The aim of the consolidation of the regulation is to attend decree no. 10.139 of 28 November 2020. Inmetro Ordinance No. 332 revokes on the date of 1 Sept 2021: - Ordinance Inmetro No. 577, of 18 November 2015, published in the Brazilian Official Gazette of 20 November 2015, section 1, pages 116 and 117; and - Item XIX of Art. 18 and VI of Art. 19 of Ordinance Inmetro No. 258, of 6 August 2020, published in the Brazilian Official Gazette of 7 August 2020, section 1, page 25.

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  8. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.2

    Comment deadline: Closed on 27 May 2021

    Public Consultation - Technical Quality Regulation and Compliance Assessment Requirements for Refrigerators

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – Inmetro, issued Public Consultation 7, 25 March 2021, which proposes to amend the Technical Quality Regulation and Compliance Assessment Requirements for Refrigerators and the like, establishing the reclassification of energy efficiency categories, updating the regulatory basis and determining other measures for the availability of these products in the national market. Criticisms and suggestions should be forwarded in the spreadsheet model available at: preferably in electronic form to the following addresses: National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro Conformity Assessment Directorate - Dconf Av. Nossa Senhora das Graças, nº 50/Xerém ZIP Code 25.250-020 – Rio de Janeiro/RJ E-mail: dconf.consultapublica@inmetro.gov.br Comments should be made until 27 May 2021.

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  9. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/513/Add.1

    This addendum aims at informing that the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Inmetro) issued the Ordinance Nº 577, 18 November 2015, as Technical Regulation’s final text for refrigerators and similar products like coolers, freezers, etc, previously notified as G/TBT/N/BRA/513. The Conformity Assessment Requirements is available in annex II of this Ordinance, and deadlines to become acquainted with the rules are inserted in the item 14. It revokes Inmetro Ordinance Nº 20, 1 F

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  10. Regular notificationG/TBT/N/BRA/513

    Comment deadline: Closed on 11 September 2012

    Ministerial Ac: Nº 463, 10th September 2012 (28 pages in Portuguese).

    Draft technical regulation which establishes technical requirements that must be met by refrigerating appliances, with a focus on security and energy efficiency.

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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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