South Korea issued a draft standard LED lamp or trade barriers

The day before, South Korea issued a circular G/TBT/N/KOR/408 (a type LED lamp fluorescent lamp replacement draft standard (K 10025)). Safety standard LED lamp can replace the draft to the platoon type, straight type and annular fluorescent lamp, and the provisions of the security and functional requirements, temperature limit and compatibility requirements, the standard once introduced, will likely have a significant impact on the export of related products in South korea.

According to reports, this draft standard involves the replacement of straight tube, row type and circular fluorescent lamp safety standards for LED lamps. The draft standard also provides a safe and functional fluorescent lamp replacement type LED lamp requirements, safety requirements such as insulation resistance, insulation strength, creepage and clearance distance, heat resistance and flame resistance and other performance requirements, including luminous flux, color temperature and point out / life.

Experts suggested that the draft standard will improve the survival costs of LED lamps. The G/TBT/N/KOR/408 notification explicitly mentioned in the provisions of the draft standard, insulation resistance, insulation strength, creepage and clearance distance, heat resistance and fire resistance and safety requirements in the existing various types of lamp requirements and applicable standards on the basis of current IEC. But in fact, the draft standard in the "light weight", "deformation of the lamp", "temperature rise" and other aspects of the IEC standards and JEL standards on the basis of a substantial increase in safety requirements. These requirements on the material of the lamp put forward very high requirements, will greatly enhance the production cost of lamps.

The new standards will also cause unnecessary barriers to trade. The draft standard provisions on the two ends of LED lamp lamp cover color is white, but in fact, there is no necessary connection between the safety and product color LED lights a lamp cover at both ends, such design features not related to security and performance, shall be borne by the buyers and sellers in the sales contract or self imposed producers according to consumer preferences to the target market design, such as the inclusion of public standards, will easily lead to unnecessary trade barriers.

In addition, LED companies reflect the enterprise is to develop the Korean market, because the standard multiple terms and international general international Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards are different, such as the standard once issued, the enterprise must be redesigned into production products, products exported to Korea will greatly enhance the competitiveness of products in South Korea, weaken the market, make the enterprise layout of the Korean market work is facing enormous pressure.

The above is the Dongguan enterprises should pay attention to the notice of several changes in the bill, the enterprise can do a good job in accordance with the provisions of the production plan to prepare for a rainy day.