Joe QUOTE "Taiwan is a global exporter and must comply with environmental regulations in many regions," said Thomas Chen, manager at the Taiwan-based Electronics Testing Center. "A single reporting standard will be essential to the continued competitiveness of our manufacturers, as well as any other country with a significant export market." UNQUOTE As the great bard said, "Aye, there's the rub.". The problem is that makers supplying the international market must design goods to cover the requirements of the most aggressive and severe standards in each of the markets. Therefore, they must hypothetically use lead-free to meet European needs, TBBPA-free to meet Swedish requirements, UL 94-V0 to cover US insurance regulations, must be EC approved to cover EMC needs. There should be a single international standard covering all these and other criteria, based on sound commonsense and not the extremist views of each of them. If such an agreement were ratified by all the players, then the playing field would be level and based on real needs, rather than the politicians' pipe dreams. Best regards, Brian Joe Fjelstad wrote: > > FYI > > http://m1e.net/c?2035688-ehKoH9wTLj/L.%4027644-yddLW9J3Kh2r%2e