Background
Broadly speaking, technical, or non-tariff
trade barriers can be identified as national technical requirements
which occur in laws, regulations and standards, together with conformity
certification schemes, which affect the design, manufacture, marking
and use of products in the country concerned. Many of these so-called
technical barriers to trade have not been erected consciously to
keep exports out, but are either an inherent part of the structure
of the importing country, or the outcome of an historical situation.
The results, from differing legal systems, arise from a different
approach to provision of goods and services in the country concerned.
In the majority of cases these barriers are not in any sense new
and have existed for decades or even centuries. They have become
more apparent in the last fifteen or twenty years with the massive
increase in trade between the industrialized nations and the associated
increase in competition for the markets involved.
How can we help?
- We can make the
exporter aware of these technical
requirements so that he can consider them early enough to ensure
his product is acceptable when it
finally
reaches the target market. Failure
to take these requirements into
consideration can result in time consuming delays and lost sales,
loss of profits and sometimes-even
bankruptcy, to say nothing of the
damage
to the reputation of the company.
- We can provide a versatile service identifying
and supplying the latest information
on standards, regulations, inspection
companies, packaging and labelling
requirements, language and more.
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