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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Apr, 2014
Indian industry may find itself shut out of some of global markets if it does not enhance its quality, Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher Wednesday said at a industry meeting in New Delhi.

"Standards had effectively replaced tariffs in the international trade discourse. Countries around the world are developing higher standards and are designing products to meet these standards. The time has come for Indian Industry to do the same," Kher said while delivering the Inaugural Address at the Standards Conclave: Role of Standards in International Trade: Challenges Opportunities and Issues organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on April 16-17.

Elaborating further, Kher highlighted how different countries in Africa had upgraded their standards for various products and many of these were now at par with developed country standards.

He felt that Indian industry may find itself shut out of some of global markets if it does not enhance its quality.

The Commerce Secretary also spoke of the enclavisation of international trade with the creation of mega trading blocs like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Regional Comprehenive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was leading to a paradigm shift in the trade regime. The emphasis had moved away from tariffs and these blocs would now be focused on creation of rules, regulations and standards. He felt that India needs to find a place in this new architecture.

Kher was of the view that government and industry needed to be on the same page in terms of development of standards. He felt that a comprehensive law needed to be formulated under which standards development could take place.

He observed that there was a need to mainstream the acceptance of standards even within the Government of India and a consultative mechanism needed to be put in place to bring all stakeholders together while formulating standards.

In his address Sunil Soni, Director General, Bureau of Indian Standards stated that India needed to greater advantage of the SPS and TBT agreements under the WTO. Of the 18,000 notifications issued under these agreements from various countries, regulations issued from India numbered only 93.

Soni observed that while the BIS is the apex organization for the formulation of standards in India, there were other organisations involved in this process as well. He felt that there was a need to develop synergy between the BIS and these organisations.

In his opening remarks, Deep Kapuria, Chairman, CII MSME Council and Chairman, Hi-Tech Group stressed on the need to make compliance with standards affordable. He felt that the high cost of compliance may lead to a large number of MSME's not being able to export their products.

Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII in his welcome address stated that the enhancement of standards would not only boost India's exports but also would restrict inferior imports which are causing serious injury to the domestic industry.
 
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BIS Standards
Milan Mehta | Thu Apr 24 14:15:24 2014
BIS Standards should be accepted worldwide. Then only Consumers shall insist for the mark on the product they buy. BIS should highlight to ordinary consumer real stories on how non-BIS Marked products caused loss of Lives, money, etc..rather than putting a simple advt. in paper. In fact they should come out with small advt. clips on real life cases ( as discussed above ) and put it online and on TV.


Important subject to stress upon
GV Swamy | Thu Apr 24 04:34:11 2014
This is very important subject to stress upon.it required for the Industry to understand the global requirements on standards. The Industry heads/and associations to drive the respective organizations on the standards and specs.


 
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