The Specialized Chamber for the Defense of Competition of the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI in Spanish) ruled that the prohibition of the use of adhesives for advertising warnings to be placed on imported food and non-alcoholic beverages is a non-tariff trade barrier lacking reasonableness. With this, it confirmed the decision of the first administrative instance on the mentioned prohibition, imposed by the Ministry of Health.

In Resolutions N°0034-2023/SDC-INDECOPI and N°0035-2023/SDC-INDECOPI of April 4, 2023, issued in two proceedings for the elimination of non-tariff trade barriers, the court stated that, although the prohibition is not illegal, the Ministry of Health should have supported its reasonableness; however, such entity did not prove to have identified, before establishing the prohibition, the existence of a problem that the measure was intended to solve, nor its suitability.