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Why does a certification require local investment?

• aleph_minus_one 2y ago
  Because the government decided it.
• infecto 2y ago
  Sort of referenced above. TKDN in Indonesia requires a substantial part of the product to be sourced internally. I guess the way around this in the case of special goods is to invest in the country. Sounds effectively like a tariff but maybe not.
• 0xbadcafebee 2y ago
  It's a protectionist trade scheme, like tariffs, but instead forces foreign business to actively invest in local business or R&D, to level up the country's production capability. It might not have its intended result, but it's no worse than the US's exorbitant trade tariffs, which were actually increased under Biden after Trump introduced them. People always act shocked when developing countries act just as unscrupulously as the dominant powers. They learned from the best!
  • burnt-resistor 2y ago
    2 wrongs don't make a right, but 3 lefts do. Collective punishment is terrible no matter who does it. And most tariffs are sanction-adjacent stupidity that largely leads to reprisal counter-tariffs and trade wars accomplishing nothing.
• mschuster91 2y ago
  Well, radio is a shared medium, so governments typically require passing some sort of certification to allow radio devices to operate in their jurisdiction. Most governments are pretty lenient, pass a set of clearly defined emissions thresholds or compliance to communications protocols verivied by a third party, others may choose to add additional requirements. The general exception to this are ham (amateur) radios, they usually have exemptions carved into frequency plans so they can run anything from fully original designs over kit builds to ready-to-operate stuff.