Taiwan: Draft Amendment to the “Restrictions on the Importing of Mercury-Added  Products”

 

Taiwan has published a draft Amendment to the “Restrictions on the Importing of Mercury-Added Products.”

 The “Restrictions on the Importing of Mercury-Added Products” (hereinafter referred to as the “Announcement”) have not been amended since they took effect on August 25, 2020. In addition to the mercury-added products that are already prohibited, this amendment to the Announcement prohibits the import of mercury-added products and electronic measuring instruments so as to strengthen domestic mercury management, and align with the United Nations Minamata Convention on Mercury. 

The products covered are: 

(I) Switches and relays.

(II) High-pressure mercury lamps for general lighting. 

(III) Self-ballasted fluorescent lamps of 30 watts or lower for general lighting. 

(IV) Cold cathode fluorescent lamps and external electrode fluorescent lamps for electronic displays. 

(V) Strain gauges used in plethysmographs. 

(VI) Mercury vacuum pumps. 

(VII) Tire balancers and wheel balance weights. 

(VIII) Photographic film and photographic paper. 

(IX) Propellant for satellites, spacecraft, or space vehicles. 

(X) Electrical and electronic measuring instruments, such as melt pressure transducers,  transmitters, and sensors. 

(XI) Non-electronic measuring instruments, such as barometers, hygrometers, pressure  gauges, thermometers (including body thermometers), and sphygmomanometers. 

(XII) Compact fluorescent lamps for general lighting. 

(XIII) Linear and nonlinear fluorescent lamps for general lighting that use halophosphate phosphors. 

(XIV) Linear and non-linear fluorescent lamps for general lighting that use triband phosphor 

To find out more about product compliance in Taiwan and material compliance, do not hesitate to contact the Product Compliance Institute directly.