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Wortd Standards Day Message

World Trade Needs Worldwide Standards
Businesses and customers stand to reap the maximum benefits when Internal! onal Standards for products and services are implemented on n sufficiently broad scale to make technologies compa tible worldwide. Suppliers are then able to save money by off ering one product based on internationally standardized specifications on markets everywhere, thus avoiding expensive; and wasteful modifications and separate production runs i leces-sary to meet different na tional requirements. Customers, in turn, find that their cho ice of products is widened to ii iclude offerings from around the world which nevertheless conform to adequate levels o f quality, reliability and safely. In addition, customers Bhould benefit from reduced prices brought about by compietition between suppliers.
ISO, IEC and ITU. whose scopes of standardizatlo n complement each other, form a complete system for the supply of voluntary international technical agreements . Published as International Standards or Recommendations, these agreements are h elplng to bring about the compa tlbility of technology worldwide. Their implementation can a dd value for businesses large a nd small In all sectors of economic activity. particularly in the facilitation of trade.
Standards have al ways been
closely connected with trade — or the exchange of goods or services between supplier and customer. Agreement on weights and dimensions has for many hundreds of years made life easier for buyer and seller engaged in such simple exchanges as buying bread or rice. In modern times, the exchanges involved in daily acts like switching on a light or making a telephone call are made possible by a process of formal, technological standardization in which ISO. IEC and ITU are experts.
Today, developments such as falling political barriers, the privatization of State-run monopolies like power supply and telecommunications, and the arrival on the market of new suppliers from developing and transitional economies are changing the face of trade. The growth in the volume of world trade continues to outstrip that of world production. Markets are becoming global. More and more, the supply chains which bring goods from producer to consumer link economic players across borders. The international agreements developed within ISO. IEC and ITU facilitate this cross-border trade.
The vital role of International Standards as the technical foundation for the global market is explicitly recognized in the WTO (World Trade Organization) Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBIT The agreement urges govern-
ments to nlbke the utmost use of International Standards in order to prevent unnecessary obstacles to the free flow of goods.
The WTO agreement includes a "Code of Good Practice for the preparation, adoption and ap-Blication of standards". Tne ATT Standards Code of 1979 was signed by about 40 countries. The new version applies to all members of the WTO. which now comprise more than 130 countries. So far. some 70 have notified their acceptance erf the Code of Good Practice.
ISO, IEC and ITU on the one hand, and the WTO on the other, must make sure the message is heard by their respective members: world trade needs worldwide standards. The signatory countries to the WTO/TBT Agreement must follow up their political commitment to a free and fair global trading system by a similar commitment to reliance on International Standards which enable businesses and customers alike in the developing global market to draw the maximum benefits.
Liew Mun Leong, President of ISO (International Organization lor Standardization) Bernard H Falk, President of IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), Dr Pekka Tarianee, Secretary-General of ITU (International Telecommunication Union)