Notify
U.S. is a free, web-based e-mail subscription service that
offers U.S. entities an opportunity to review and comment on proposed
foreign technical regulations that can affect their businesses
and their access to international markets.
This service and its associated website is managed and operated
by the National
Center for Standards and Certification Information (NCSCI), an organization within the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's
(DOC) Technology Administration.
Member
countries of the World
Trade Organization (WTO) are required
under the
Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement)
to report to the WTO all proposed technical regulations that could
affect trade with other Member countries. The WTO Secretariat distributes
this information in the form of "notifications" to all
Member countries.
By subscribing to the Notify U.S. Service, U.S. entities receive,
via e-mail, notifications of drafts or changes to domestic and
foreign technical regulations for manufactured products. You select
which industries are of interest to your company when you register.
Included in the subscribers e-mail is a link to the Notify U.S.
web site where they can read more information and order complete
texts of the regulations for review and comment.
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