I see it so often. A question is asked if such and so machine can be imported and how that would work. And out of the woodwork pop the guardian angels warning of the pitfalls: No warranty, no support, not allowed, not standardised and youll burn your house down.
Having relocated from Europe to USA to Europe to the Middle East to Australia and having taken with me on my various travels a whole menagerie of electrical devices, I cant see the problem. You can burn your house down with a cigarette lighter bought at the corner shop if youre so inclined. If you leave your locally sourced roaster unattended, you can burn your house down with that just the same as you can burn your house down with an imported one. Never heard such hyperbole.
All this nonsense about Australian Standards makes me puke. So we Australians (all 23million of us) know it better than 250 million US Americans or 450 million Europeans? The only result is that everythings way more expensive than it has to be. Because importers have to jump through hoops to get the devices, be they coffee machines or roasters or motorcycle helmets or pretty much anything you can think of localised i.e. tested for compliance with the Australian Standards.
Why not adopt CE standard and share the efficiencies of a market thats 20 times the size of ours? Why insist on these silly flat-pinned power plugs, in every respect inferior to the round-pinned Euro plug design? Why force manufactures to run the gauntlet of standards testing for a market that supports 100 maybe 1000 units of a product?
Stupid protectionist economic politics trying to protect an uncompetitive market that possibly doesnt even produce the product (Australian made domestic coffee roaster, anyone?) and thus competes with none other than the own population.
We need to cut that Australian Standards crap and we can reduce taxes by 10%. At least.
Now that made me feel better. :
Having relocated from Europe to USA to Europe to the Middle East to Australia and having taken with me on my various travels a whole menagerie of electrical devices, I cant see the problem. You can burn your house down with a cigarette lighter bought at the corner shop if youre so inclined. If you leave your locally sourced roaster unattended, you can burn your house down with that just the same as you can burn your house down with an imported one. Never heard such hyperbole.
All this nonsense about Australian Standards makes me puke. So we Australians (all 23million of us) know it better than 250 million US Americans or 450 million Europeans? The only result is that everythings way more expensive than it has to be. Because importers have to jump through hoops to get the devices, be they coffee machines or roasters or motorcycle helmets or pretty much anything you can think of localised i.e. tested for compliance with the Australian Standards.
Why not adopt CE standard and share the efficiencies of a market thats 20 times the size of ours? Why insist on these silly flat-pinned power plugs, in every respect inferior to the round-pinned Euro plug design? Why force manufactures to run the gauntlet of standards testing for a market that supports 100 maybe 1000 units of a product?
Stupid protectionist economic politics trying to protect an uncompetitive market that possibly doesnt even produce the product (Australian made domestic coffee roaster, anyone?) and thus competes with none other than the own population.
We need to cut that Australian Standards crap and we can reduce taxes by 10%. At least.
Now that made me feel better. :

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