Welcome to the Notify U.S. Web site. Notify U.S. is a free, web-based e-mail subscription service that offers U.S. entities (citizens, industries, organizations) an opportunity to review and comment on proposed foreign technical regulations that can affect their businesses and their access to international markets. This service and its associated web site is managed and operated by the National Center for Standards and Certification Information (NCSCI) an organization within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's (DOC) Technology Administration.
Purpose
The purpose of Notify U.S. is to collect and fulfill subscriber requests for information on World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements relating to Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT). Member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are required under the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) to report to the WTO all proposed technical regulations that could affect trade with other Member countries. The WTO Secretariat distributes this information in the form of "notifications" to all Member countries.
Subscribers
By subscribing to the Notify U.S. Service, U.S. entities receive, via e-mail, notifications of drafts or changes to domestic and foreign technical regulations for manufactured products. Included in the subscribers e-mail is a link to the Notify U.S. web site where they can read more information and order complete texts of the regulations for review and comment. At this time, the Notify U.S. Service is only available to subscribers who are U.S. citizens and individuals that are part of U.S. based organizations and industries.
Registered subscribers can access the Notify U.S. Service by entering an authorized Email address and password in the Sign In form. Any individual who needs access and does not have or been assigned an account and a password, can select this Subscribe Link to create an account for subscribing to this service. Subscribers that have forgotten their account and/or password or have had their account disabled, can use this Forgot Password Link to request that their account be re-enabled or their password reset.
Additional Information
For additional resources please visit the website directly at http://tsapps.nist.gov/notifyus/data/index/index.cfm