Question

What are standards designed to do? Check all that apply.

protect consumers
support domestic industries
limit imports
ensure safety
offer domestic industries an advantage

Answer 1

Choose:
- protect consumers — Yes
- ensure safety — Yes

Standards are intended to ensure product quality, safety, interoperability and consumer protection. They are not meant to be trade barriers or tools to favor domestic industry, so “support domestic industries,” “limit imports,” and “offer domestic industries an advantage” are not correct (although in practice poor or protectionist standard-setting can have those effects).