MOU

In order to ensure the equivalence of metrology standards and legal metrology, and to spur the research cooperation and the technology transfer, MOUs are concluded between NMIJ and NMIs in other countries

Technical Cooperation on Metrology Standards

- Country -	- Organization -
USA	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (Comprehensive MOU between NIST and AIST)
China	National Institute of Metrology (NIM)
Korea	Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS)
Brazil	National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (INMETRO)
Thailand	Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR) (Comprehensive MOU between TISTR and AIST) National Institute of Metrology, Thailand (NIMT)
France	Bureau International des Poids et Measures (BIPM)
Switzerland	Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS)
Australia	National Measurement Institute, Australia (NMIA)
-	International Avogadro Project Bureau International des Poids et Measures (BIPM) National Institute of Metrological Research (INRIM) National Measurement Institute, Australia (NMIA) Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Asian Collaboration on Reference Materials

- Country -	- Organization -
Korea China	Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) National Institute of Metrology (NIM)

Cooperation in Legal Metrology

- Country -	- Organization -
The Netherlands	NMi Certin B.V. *
Germany	Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) *
Korea	Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS)
Russia	Russian Scientific Reserach Institute for Metrological Service of Gosstandart of Russia (VNIIMS)

* Mutual Recognition Arrangement on type approval certificates of measuring instruments