September 10th, 2006
Folks,
The bad news is that China RoHS starts to take effect in a little over 6 months.
The good news is that the scope, at this date, covers only marking and disclosure of the six identified hazardous substances and their location(s) in the product.
Many assume that the 1 Mar 2007 was like the 1 July 2006 date in the EU. This "full compliance" date, has not yet been set by China.
Cheers,
Dr. Ron
Don Larsen:
Dr. Lasky,
My company is looking ahead to China RoHS and seeing a problem. As a producer of "network infrastructure equipment," we are still under an exemption from removing Sn/Pb solder. Since we still have Pb in our products, under step one of China RoHS (marking and disclosure), we'll be required to acknowledge the presence of Pb by identifying the "environment-friendly use period." We don't have a problem with doing this, but are not sure what value to use. We assume this is associated with the probability that the Pb will "leak or mutate" and don't know much about how to predict that. Can you shed any light on this?