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Goods Standards
NAFTA includes provisions to help prevent standards from becoming trade barriers. It promotes the use of compatible standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures. In time this should reduce the burden of compliance with the different standards for different countries.
To reduce exporters' costs, NAFTA encourages mutual acceptance of test results and certification procedures.
Approved facilities will eventually be able to certify that goods meet the standards of all three countries. The
Canadian Standards Association
is now able to certify that certain goods meet the more than 360 U.S. health and safety standards.
Underwriters' Laboratories
of Illinois has been granted approval to certify that goods comply with Canadian standards.
NAFTA requires that the three countries seek to ensure that provincial, state and local governments, as well as non-government standard-setting bodies, comply with the provisions described. This clause was negotiated to help Canadian manufacturers who face a myriad of U.S. state regulations.
Not withstanding these improvements, Canadian firms exporting to Mexico or the United States must still ensure that goods meet the safety regulations, labelling requirements and other technical standards of the country into which they are being exported. Relevant information is available from the Standards Council of Canada.
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