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.