Do you intend to sell your products to Canada or the United States next year? From January 2005 there will be no need to use 12-digit bar codes because all North American retailers should be able to handle EAN-13 bar codes as well.
At the moment any e.centre member who trades in North America is advised to use UPC-A bar codes because many retailers cannot record 13-digit global trade item numbers (GTINs) in their systems.
But the Americans are conscious that they are running out of these 12-digit numbers to use as bar codes and in 1997, the Uniform Code Council launched its Sunrise 2005 project. This project aims to ensure that all American companies make the appropriate changes to their systems and build in the ability to handle GTINs that are up to 14-digits long by 2005.
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