Export Alert Service from ITA & NIST
Import Guidelines
Standards Notifications
Trade Missions
ExportAmerica News
National Trade Estimate Report for 2010

Click here to view a printer-friendly report with some helpful updated information from the government for companies who import product into the U.S.
Further information can also be found at www.customs.gov and
www.aiag.org/publications/tc1.html

Standards Notifications

Sign up here for the latest in regional or industry-related WTO standards notifications - e-mailed to you directly! http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/210/217/export-alert.htm

If your e-mail supports links, TCC Online's "Recently Added Information" page can be accessed directly by clicking on the link http://www.tcc.mac.doc.gov/cgi-bin/doit.cgi?226:54:755631508:12.

Export Alert Service from ITA & NIST

Please note that NIST recently reorganized its website and the Export Alert! link has changed to http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/210/ncsci/export-alert.htm.

U.S. industry has the opportunity under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) to review and comment on proposed foreign technical regulations that may affect their businesses. Over 140 WTO members are required to notify any trade-significant proposed drafts or changes to technical regulations to the WTO Secretariat, who in turn makes the information available to all WTO members. By registering for this service, subscribers will receive automatic e-mails of WTO notifications of proposed technical regulations. If interested on reviewing and commenting on a regulation, you can request a copy of the full text of the proposed regulation from NIST.

Export Alert Features...

• A free Web-based service designed to disseminate WTO TBT notifications via e-mail to U.S. industry.
• Subcribers register online at http://ts.nist.gov/ncsci and select their areas of interest by industry sector and/or country.
• Provides subscribers with authentic notification of proposed technical regulations in global markets.
• Allows subscribers to request full text of the draft regulatory document and comment on the proposed regulation.

Who Should Register for Export Alert?

• Exporters, small and medium sized enterprises
• Conformity assessment organizations that provide testing and other services to exporters
• Trade policy officials in federal and state governments
• Engineers, particularly those interested in product development
• Consultants and lawyers working with exporters
• Quality management and environmental management professionals
• Any stakeholder

For more information contact:

National Center for Standards and Certification Information
National Center for Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Dr., MS 2160
Gaithersburg, Md. 20899-2160
Tel: 301-975-4040
Fax: 301-926-1559
E-mail: ncsci@nist.gov

Office of Export Promotion Services' Trade Events List

http://www.export.gov/comm_svc/eps_events060603.html
If any of our trade events listed are of interest to you, please contact the EPS Project Officer noted below each trade event. If you have any additional questions or comments, please call Jonathan May at 202-482-6220 or by e-mail at Jonathan.May@mail.doc.gov. 

ExportAmerica News

Click here for the latest information on trade statistics, publications, news releases, trade missions/events and more, visit the Commerce Department’s ExportAmerica News magazine.

National Trade Estimate Report for 2010 

Click here to view the National Trade Estimate Report for 2010.