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MONDAY, APRII. 9, 1990

AGREEMENTS REN 'E TECHNICAL TRADE BARRIER

A

TECHNICAL POSSIBLE

TRADE WITH (MONDAY) WITH THE WITH LABORATORY

KONG'S TO HONG BARRIER AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED STATES WAS REMOVED TODAY SIGNING OF

AGREEMENTS RECOGNITION MUTUAL ACCREDITATION SCHEMES OPERATING IN THE TWO COUNTRIES.

HONG THE DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRY, MR T.H. BARMA, REPRESENTING THE

(HOKLAS), SIGNED MEMORANDA OF KONG LABORATORY ACCREDITATION SCHEME

OF TESTING ASSOCIATION NATIONAL AND THE

ASSOCIATION AMERICAN

WITH

THE

UNDERSTANDING (MOU'S) LABORATORIES (NATA) OF AUSTRALIA LABORATORY ACCREDITATION (A2LA).

INDICATED THE

FOR

IMPORTANCE

HONG SCHEMES IN

MR BARMA SAID THAT AGREEMENTS KONG PLACED ON ESTABLISHING LINKS WITH CREDIBLE AND MAJOR THE INTERNATIONAL TESTING COMMUNITY.

IMPROVEMENT

OF THEIR QUALITY ASSURANCE

HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD JUST LAUNCHED A QUALITY PROGRAMME TO ENCOURAGE MANUFACTURERS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY

AND METHODS GOODS THROUGH MODERN PRACTICES.

MANAGEMENT

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT SERVICES PROVIDED RELIABLE AND TO

"LABORATORY TESTING PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN IN INDUSTRY AND IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT SUCH TESTING BY LOCAL LABORATORIES ARE SHOWN TO BE COMPETENT AND HAVE ATTAINED RECOGNITION OVERSEAS," MR BARMA SAID.

HE SAID HOKLAS HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS.

FOR A WIDE RANGE THE BENEFITS

TODAY, THERE WERE 22 LABORATORIES ACCREDITED OF SERVICES AND MORE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF APPLYING AS OF ACCREDITATION WERE BEGINNING TO BE RECOGNISED.

MR BARMA

TEST CERTIFICATES SAID, UNDER THE TWO AGREEMENTS,

BE WOULD

ACCEPTED IN LABORATORIES ACCREDITED ISSUED BY HOKLAS

HAD AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED STATES WITH THE SAME VALIDITY AS IF THEY BEEN ISSUED BY AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN ACCREDITED LABORATORIES.

BY NATA AND ISSUED LIKEWISE, CERTIFICATES LABORATORIES WOULD BE ACCEPTED HERE WITHOUT QUESTION.

WILL.

A2LA

ACCREDITED

AT INTEGRITY

BY THE

GOODS BETWEEN "IT FOLLOWS FROM THESE AGREEMENTS THAT TRADE IN

WHERE ACCOMPANIED THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA AND HONG KONG,

NO LONGER BE INTERRUPTED ENDORSED TEST CERTIFICATES, POINTS OF IMPORTATION BY CUSTOMS QUERIES OVER THE TECHNICAL OR THE VERACITY OF TEST DATA,

++

CAN,

HE SAID.

TRADE FACILITATE THEREFORE,

EXISTING IN INTERNATIONAL

BY

ELIMINATING ONE OF THE TECHNICAL BARRIERS

TRADE,

DEVELOPMENT "THIS

HE ADDED.

/MR BARMA

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