IMPACTS ON THE STANDARDS OF MEASUREMENT IN INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE AFTER CHINA′S ENTRY INTO WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

A clear-cut exposition on the important role of measurement standards in the quality control of commercial products,and especially on the impacts on the measurement standards in the ever-rising international trade after China′s entry into WTO was given in this paper.Taking the iron and steel industry as an example,the status of measurement standards in our country before and after the reformation was reviewed.In sizing up the situation of China′s entry into WTO,the ever-in-creasing of international trade accompanied by technical trade barriers built by the developed countries would be the inexorable trends,which bring challenge and opportunity to the profession of measurement standards.Strategy for the development of the profession of measurement standards were also proposed.