Resources and Helpful Links
Alerts and Notifications
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Standards Alert - OSIP and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) alert stakeholders about opportunities to participate in standards development in organizations such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Information Management System (TBT IMS) - search TBT notifications by WTO Member and by date and various other search criteria
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Notify U.S. is a free, web-based information service managed and operated by Commerce's National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Notify U.S. is designed to disseminate World Trade Organization Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (WTO TBT) notifications. U.S. stakeholders can sign up for e-mail notifications of changes to domestic and foreign technical regulations for industrial products (including product packaging, marking and labeling) and receive complete texts of proposed regulations for review and comment.
- ePing - an online alert system for notifications submitted by WTO Members under the Agreements on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT). ePing can send automatic email alerts (Note: the ePing website contains notifications distributed after 8/16/2013. For older notifications, please consult SPS IMS, TBT IMS, or Notify US.)
Other Links
- OSIP Country and Industry Toolkits - helpful links to standards resources by industry and country (compiled by OSIP)
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StandardsLearn.org - Free training resources from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
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WTO eCampus - World Trade Organization training courses
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WTO TBT Training - TBT-related training materials developed by the WTO Secretariat