Carrie Xie, a standards expert from the Shandong Provincial Institute of Standardization in China, will be spending time at ASTM International headquarters in November during a yearlong visit to study standards and conformity assessment in the United States. Mrs. Xie, who will also spend time at the American National Standards Institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Underwriters Laboratories and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, has worked at the Shandong Provincial Institute for 15 years. Her current position is in the Shandong World Trade Organization/ Technical Barriers to Trade Inquiry Center, responsible for TBT notification, standards research in the service field and research in standards strategy of Shandong Province. Initially, Mrs. Xie worked in the standards information service center, where she was in charge of the collection of standards from other countries, translation issues and answers to questions about foreign standards in the province. In this position, Mrs. Xie became familiar with standards from organizations such as ASTM International, ANSI, NEMA and UL.
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