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Executive Summary
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... national standards and conformity assessment system. As we approach the year 2000, national welfare and economic strength will also increasingly center on the advantages the United States enjoys in global commerce.
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... Government agencies should retain oversight responsibility for critical regulatory and procurement standards in areas of public health, safety, environment, and national security. The assessment of product conformity to those standards, however, is performed most efficiently and effectively by the private sector.
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... RECOMMENDATION 2: NIST should develop, within one year, a tenyear strategic plan to eliminate duplication in state and local criteria for accrediting testing laboratories and product certifiers. NIST should lead efforts to build a network of mutual recognition agreements among federal, state, and local authorities.
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... This will serve both to expand trade opportunities with our European partners, and to help promote the success of similar negotiations between the United States and other trading partners, especially those in the emerging economies of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
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... By providing technical assistance to countries in emerging markets as they construct modern standards and conformity assessment systems, the United States has a unique and valuable opportunity to facilitate future world trade.
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... There is the urgent need for increased federal data gathering and analysis on standards and conformity assessment. We require an ongoing capacity to analyze the economic effects of developments in domestic and international standards and conformity assessment systems.
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... Numerous data sets which reveal relative competitive positions of the United States in service and manufacturing sectors are reported by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank in annual publications.
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Key Terms

  • mutual recognition
  • product certifiers
  • testing laboratories
  • economic cooperation
  • assessment mechanisms

  • asia pacific
  • international developments
  • national welfare
  • export markets
  • recognition agreements

  • assessment services
  • export promotion
  • statutory mandate
  • national conformity
  • trade barriers

  • institutional mechanisms
  • environmental management
  • round trade
  • industrial production
  • world trade

  • global trade
  • key emerging
  • emerging markets
  • retaliatory actions
  • standards organizations

  • pacific economic
  • assessment issues
  • standards requires
  • federally operated
  • enable manufacturers


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