Global Regulatory Compliance

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Mexico - NOM and Harmonized Tariff Code

Starting May 1, 2009, all NOM certificates for Mexico will include the Harmonized Tariff Code. This code (which may be obtained from the import/export responsible person of your company or shipping agent must be provided to the Mexico certification body prior to them issuing the NOM cert. It is stronly recommended to make sure that this code is correct and relates to the product in question.

Australia - RCM Mark

Sunday, June 7, 2009

China - CCC FAQ

Question:

For CCC, we are using a factory that was previously inspected for CCC for another customer. Do we need to have the first factory inspection repeated and pay for the full inspection cost?

Answer:

If the factory has been inspected for the same category of products (example: servers is Category 09 in CCC) as the other customer, then no first factory inspection is required.

If the factory has been previously inspected for a category of product (example: servers is category 09) but your products are ethernet switches - ie category 16), then a category extension inspection will be required for CCC, but not the full inspection audit.