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To: Urlman who wrote (4949)	6/9/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: Urlman	Respond to of 8581

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To: Urlman who wrote (4949)	6/9/1998 5:59:00 PM
From: Urlman	Respond to of 8581

RE: Global Certification... Patriot: I've done my Due Dilly ###################################################### International Type Approval Equipment Certification Procedures Overview Currently, there is no global clearinghouse for information about telecommunications equipment certification procedures in individual countries around the world. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has undertaken a number of surveys, most notably the NIS Manual, but other efforts have been less successful. Recently signed and pending Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRAs) will encourage U.S. government agencies such as the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and the FCC to seek out further information on certification procedures from our trading partners. TIA will post this information on the Web site as more information becomes available. For more information contact Jonathan Streeter, mananger, Global Technology Policy, in TIA's International Affairs Department at (703) 383-1493, or jstreete@tia.eia.org. tiaonline.org ####################################################### June 03, 1998 APEC telecom certification program to boost trade Key APEC members have agreed to promote mutual acceptance of certification of telecommunications equipment, reducing duplicate testing and lowering costs of products, industry executives said Wednesday. The Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA), said to be a first by any regional grouping, is being discussed by communication ministers of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum who are meeting here until Friday. At least half of the 18 APEC members are expected to sign on initially to the voluntary program, said Allan Horsely, executive director of the Australian Telecommunications User Group, who took part in a dialogue with the ministers. Under the plan, signatories would accept an exporting country's certification of telecommunication equipment like cellular phones based on the importing country's standards, eliminating duplicate tests and allowing manufacturers to lower prices and speed up deliveries. Senior APEC officials said the MRA will reduce technical barriers to trade in telecommunication equipment across the APEC region, placed by some industry estimates at more than one trillion dollars a year. Horsely and other regional industry executives held a dialogue with the APEC ministers for five hours Wednesday which the businessmen described as an important effort by governments to tap the private sector's cooperation. Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. chairman Roberto Romulo said the MRA would be an "excellent beginning" and noted that not even the European Union had been able to come up with such a program. Horsely said there was no immediate effort to promote harmonized certification standards, which would be a more complicated process, but that would be an "ultimate target." "The important thing to recognize in the MRA is that it is leaving a level of sovereignty with each economy. Each economy will prepare its own standards to suit its own environment," he said. "Their laboratories will be registered and then those laboratories can test the piece of equipment against any one of those standards. It's leaving that independence or flexibility with each economy," he said, He said harmonization could be "a global question." "That's not yet on the agenda and there is an hesitancy I might say not to create an Asian standards body or an APEC standards body because it will just replicate other things," he added. APEC's current members are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States. Peru, Russia and Vietnam are awaiting formal admission this year. APEC members had a combined economic output of more than 13 trillion dollars in 1995 and accounted for close to half of global trade. Under APEC's free-trade program, developed countries like the United States and Japan are pledged to open up their markets by 2010, followed 10 years later by the rest of the members.