Tom,

1. Testing in not a requirement for compliance with the marking and
disclosure requirements that go in to effect on March 1. Why China chose to
issue the test standard at this stage is unclear; it's unnecessary. The
direction has been that Chinese test labs only can do the testing. When I
asked Huang Jianzhong about that a year ago he said "other countries do not
accept our labs' test results; we are under no obligation to accept theirs".
This is a WTO issue; the US government is addressing it (along with a host
of other WTO issues related to this law)...I am not sure that they will be
all that successful.

2. The size is less than 4 mm...I think that's 1206 or 1210 (can't recall
off the top of my balding head). That only indicates what you would not have
to "disassemble" should you choose to disassemble parts in order to test
homogeneous materials. Asking whether this makes sense is probably not going
to get you anywhere...

Mike
www.chinarohs.com

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:46:13 -0700, Tom Davenport
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I agree with John, much thanks to the AEA for the translation.
>
>I have two questions to post to the forum:
>
>1.  I believe previous forum posting mentioned RoHS testing for the China
>market would have to be performed in China.  I do not see anything in this
>regard in the documents.  Did I miss it?
>2.  The document calls out components as > than or < than 1.2mm2.  That is
>really small considering an 8L SOIC is >16mm2.  They mention a QFP as an
>example, but that part would be as big or bigger than the SOIC, depending on
>leadcount.  Does anybody know where the 1.2mm2 number comes from and how it
>makes sense?
>
>Best regards,
>
>Tom Davenport
>VP Quality, Reliability and Technology
>Ramtron International Corporation
>1-719-481-7139
>www.ramtron.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Burke
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>Subject: [LF] AEA publishes Chhina RoHS final standards translation and
>labelling requirements
>Importance: High
>
>FYI, check out this release and follow the links:
>
>
>
>http://tinyurl.com/uacr9
>
>
>
>THANKS AEA........
>
>
>
>
>
>John Burke
>
>
>
>(408) 515 4992
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