At 07:24 PM 22/03/2000, you wrote:
This issue isn't change - its the gyrations, expense and increased overhead incurred by manufacturing companies that is the concern here.
Excuse me for being a bit blunt, but if any foreign company wants to sell their product in the US, they have to face the gyrations, expense and increased overhead of having to comply with NRTL, FCC, FDA, OSHA, etc., ad nauseum. I see no reason why other countries shouldn't put up similar economic trade barriers.
Anyway, if your company has a market in these countries, then you are presumably making a profit. In most cases, if you look at your marketing and advertising cost in each of these countries, I suspect that the compliance costs pale in comparison. It's not a big deal.
Perhaps what companies should do is to include the compliance costs in their marketing budget. In this case, you could get on with your job, without having to put up with any more bitching from all those bean-counters and pimple-faced MBAs.
Just my 2 yen's worth ... Egon :-) __________________________________________ Egon H. Varju, PEng E.H. Varju & Associates Ltd. North Vancouver, Canada Tel: 1 604 985 5710 HAVE MODEM Fax: 1 604 273 5815 WILL TRAVEL E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] __________________________________________ ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
