- Author
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Cooke, P. W.
- Title
- Review of U.S. Participation in International Standards Activities.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NBSIR 88-3698
January 1988
69 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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standards
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standardization
- Abstract
- This report describes the role of international standards, their increasingly significant importance in world trade, and the extent of past and current U.S. participation in the two major international standardization bodies; ISO and IEC. The degree of U.S. participation covers the 20 year period 1966-1986. A coarse analysis of data indicates some correlation between U.S. participation and recent export performance for several major product categories.