The Bureau has membership in the following regional and international organizations

The Bureau's Technical Information Center is the only national standards body library in the country and is the centre of the international standards information network serving as:

National Enquiry Point under the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT).
Contact point for Codex Alimentarius Commission in Jamaica.
Local Agent for International Organization for Standardsization (ISO), British Standards institution (BSI) and American National Standards institution (ANSI).

The Bureau has membership in the following regional and international organizations:

International Electro-Technical Commission (IEC).
Caribbean Regional Organization for Standards and Quality (CROSQ).
Inter-American Metrology System (SIM).
Pan-American Standards Commission (COPANT).
Caribbean Metrology Sub-region (CARIMET).

In addition we cooperate with a wide range of international and regional standards and metrology institutions.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM International).
National Centre for Metrology - Mexico (CENAM).
Physikalish Technische Bundesansteltalt (PTB).
American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
National Office of Standards - Cuba (NC).
Colombian Institute of Certification and Technical Standards - Colombia (ICONTEC).
Barbados National Standards Institute (BNSI).
Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (TTBS).
Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) .
   

This publication contains a list of draft standards which are currently being developed and also a list of standards adopted October 2004 to March 2005. The Work Programme is published twice each year, in April and October. It was first published in April 1996 and is done in keeping with WTO TBT requirements under the Code of Good Practice for the Preparation, Adoption and Application of Standards in Annex 3 to the Agreement. 

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