Seems as the question falls under: United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods, 1980 ( CISG ). You can find it all here: http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/un.contracts.international.sale.of.goods.conven tion.1980/doc.html The warranty is up to each manufacturer, and depends on the agreements with customers from case to case. I think that you can only change the warranty if a product is given a different article identification. E.g. Swiss Officer's Survival Knife has 10 years of warranty. If the manufacturer makes a change in the steel alloy, I think he has a long, complicated and expensive work to do in order to dare continue his 10 year warranty. Likewise, each electronics manufacturer got to perform test series after changing to leadfree manufacturing. The whole question eminates from the contract, and it's not custom to tell the whole world about details here. The serious will sleep well because of done LF homework, the less serious will get surprise. Section II - Conformity of the goods and third party claims 122 Article 35 123 (1) The seller must deliver goods which are of the quantity, quality and description required by the contract and which are contained or packaged in the manner required by the contract. /Inge -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kane, Amol (349) Sent: den 17 september 2007 21:46 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Lead-Free Warranty Fellow Technetters, I know this is a sensitive subject, but how are ppl dealing with warranties on LF assemblies?? Same, or lower than SnPb assemblies? I want to do a sanity check on our warranty to ensure we are neither too soft or too harsh....any responses (online or offline) will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Amol CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail, and any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential and protected from disclosure under the law. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail, and delete/destroy all copies of the original message and attachments. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------