The
Standards Portal (
www.standardsportal.org)
is an online resource designed to facilitate trade through increased
transparency and engagement in standards, conformity assessment and technical
regulations (SCATR).
The
primary aim of the Standards Portal is to answer key questions asked by
exporters:
- What technical requirements
must I meet to enter and succeed in a specific market?
- How can I get an “early
warning” on changes to the requirements of my target market?
- How can I ensure that my company’s perspectives are heard and considered
in the development of technical requirements and policies for my target market?
Currently, the Standards Portal includes
information on the following economies. Pages are color coded by economy and responsible organization:
| Economy |
Lead Organization |
Language(s) |
Page Color |
| United States (US) |
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) |
English (EN)
Mandarin Chinese (中) |
Blue |
| People’s Republic of China (PRC) |
Standardization Administration of China (SAC) |
English (EN)
Mandarin Chinese (中) |
Red |
The Standards Portal was created through a partnership between the
American National Standards Institute (ANSI),
the Standardization
Administration of China (SAC), and the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which provided a grant to
support the launch and maintenance of this resource.
ANSI is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to
enhance U.S.
global competitiveness and the American quality of life by promoting,
facilitating, and safeguarding the integrity of the voluntary standardization
and conformity assessment system. Its membership comprises businesses,
professional societies, trade associations, standards developers, government
agencies, and consumer and labor organizations.
Standardization
Administration of the People's Republic of China
(SAC) is authorized by the State Council and under the control of AQSIQ to
exercise the administrative functions and carry out centralized administration
for standardization in China.
While relevant competent administrative departments of the State Council shall
be assigned the responsibility of managing the work of standardization within
their respective professional sectors. The competent administrative bureaus of
standardization in the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, cities
and counties shall execute unified administration of the work of
standardization in their respective administrative regions. The provinces,
autonomous regions, municipalities, cites and counties are also setting
standardization departments in their governments. The SAC execute business
administration of those province-level bureaus of technical supervision and
execute directive administration in the system of under province-level bureau
of technical supervision.
Founded in 1901, NIST is a
non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology
Administration. NIST's mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial
competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in
ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.