Overview of ANSI Federation Participation in Asia Pacific Specialist Regional Bodies

ANSI Regional Interaction (Asia Pacific) APEC-SRB Relationships The United States is highly engaged in Asia Pacific Standards and conformance activities ANSI, NIST, and other U.S parties are members of the Asia Pacific Specialist Regional Bodies (SRBs) which are recognized by APEC as having specialized expertise in the areas of: Standardization (PASC) Accreditation (PAC, APLAC) Metrology (APMP, APLMF) The five Asia Pacific SRBs are: Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC) Pacific Area Cooperation (PAC) Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC) Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Forum (APLMF) Asia-Pacific Metrology Programme (APMP) The SRBs provide critical specialized support to the APEC Committee for Trade and Investment (CTI) – Subcommittee on Standards and Conformance (SCSC) The SCSC is composed of the government trade representatives of the APEC region who meet to ensure that standards and conformance issues do not create technical barriers PASC, together with the other SRBs and the SCSC, are working closely with the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) to facilitate trade and provide critical infrastructure in the Asia Pacific region in the area of standards and conformance

PASC (and APEC) Membership PAC APLAC APLMF APMP

APEC Specialist Regional Body Membership Economies APEC APEC Specialist Regional Bodies (SRBs) APLMF Legal Metrology APMP Measurement Standards PASC Standards PAC Accreditation (Certifiers) APLAC Accreditation (Laboratory) Australia X NMIA NMIA, ARPANSA, ANSTO SA JAS-ANZ NATA Brunei Darussalam CPRU Min. of Develop. Canada MC, IC (see note 1) SCC SCC, CAEAL Chile INN People's Republic of China AQSIQ NIM SAC CNAS Hong Kong, China CPPB, C&ED HKSCL, GL ITCHSKAR HKAS Indonesia DOM KIM-LIPI BSN KAN Japan NMIJ, AIST NMIJ/AIST, NICT, CERI JISC JAB, JASC, JIPDEC JAB, VLAC, IA-JAPAN Republic of Korea KATS, MOCIE KRISS KATS KAB, KAS KOLAS Malaysia Min. of Trd, SIRIM SIRIM-Berhad, MINT DSM Mexico DGN EMA New Zealand MCA MSL, IRL SNZ IANZ Papua New Guinea NISIT PNGLAS Peru INDECOPI (see note 2) Philippines ITDI, DOST ITDI BPS PAO Russian Federation GOST VNIM AAC Analitica Singapore SPRING A*STAR Chinese Taipei BSMI, MOEA CMS/ITRI, INER, Chunghwa TAF TAF, NIEA Thailand DCR DSS, NIMT, TISTR TISI NAC DMSc, DSS, TLAS United States NIST, NCWM ANSI A2LA, IAS, ACLASS, L-A-B, AIHA, NVLAP, PJLA Viet Nam STAMEQ VMI TCVN BOA

Specialist Regional Body Membership (continued) Non APEC ECONOMIES INVOLVED IN VARIOUS SRBs Economies APEC APEC Specialist Regional Bodies (SRBs) APLMF Legal Metrology APMP Measurement Standards PASC Standards PAC Accreditation (Certifiers) APLAC Accreditation (Laboratory) Bangladesh NA BSTI BAB Cambodia MIME Colombia CCCM ICONTEC Egypt NIS Fiji Min. of Com, Ind., Trade & PE FTSQCO India NPL, BARC NABCB NABL Iran IAS Jordan JNMI Kazakhstan KazInMetr DPR of Korea SAQM CIQM Laos DISM Mongolia MNCSM MASM Myanmar Nepal NBSM Pakistan NPSL PNAC South Africa NMISA SABS Sri Lanka MUSSD SLAB Syria NSCL

Specialist Regional Body Matrix Legend Full Member Associate Member Not a Member Note 1: These economies are signatories of the international CIPM-MRA via membership through SIM (the Americas) and therefore not through APMP (Asia Pacific). Note 2: Peru is a member of SIM but not a CIPM-MRA signatory

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