Why this is important to Wisconsin businesses:

New standards are being established to ensure the production of high-quality, consumer-safe products.

India wants to raise the quality and the reputation of products made by its manufacturers.

The government is instituting a system that will issue quality control orders for products with a big impact on consumer safety, such as electrical accessories, laboratory glassware, hinges, copper products, and door fittings.

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi said he wants India to become a global leader in supplying high-quality, safety-compliant products. “If there’s a Made in India product on any table in the world, the world should have confidence that there is nothing better than this,” he said, in a press release.

The government says the quality control orders comply with the provisions of the World Trade Organization’s Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, which says countries can take necessary measures to ensure the quality of their exports in order to protect human, animal, or plant life and to safeguard the environment.

Implementing the quality control orders will allow product defects or malfunctions to be detected at an early stage, preventing accidents and deaths. That will help India gain a bigger share of the global manufacturing market, the government says.

So far, 60 quality control orders have been issued, covering about 300 product standards.

Wisconsin companies can track the quality control orders on the Bureau of Indian Standards website.