Exporting household electrical switches to Kuwait: new draft safety rules
Kuwait's Public Authority for Industry notified the WTO of four draft technical regulations with distinct scopes.
- Affected products
- Time-delay (excluding electronic TDS), electromagnetic remote-control (excluding electronic RCS) and isolating switches for fixed installations; separately, appliance cord switches up to 250 V/16 A
- Required action
- Comments: fixed-installation switches (/776–/778), 5 December 2026; appliance cord switches (/780), 6 December 2026. Adoption proposed 30 days after each deadline; entry into force proposed one year after adoption.
- Published
- 2026-10-06
- Source
- Kuwait PAI, KOWSMD, via WTO: G/TBT/N/KWT/776, /777, /778 (6 October 2026); /780 (7 October). GSO IEC 60669-2-3:2025, 60669-2-2:2025, 60669-2-4:2025 and 61058-2-1:2025, respectively
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
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