South Korea to modify the safety standards for electronic products bulletin, China LED export enterprises affected by fear

At the beginning of October, South Korea announced that will modify the electronic product safety standards and the essentials, the requirements listed Ming LED lighting apparatus. This change makes Dongguan, Zhongshan based Chinese LED export enterprises affected.

In October 1st, South Korea issued a safety standard G/TBT/N/KOR/234, Electronic Bulletin No. 235, the two to be informed with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on the electromagnetic compatibility requirements of electrical lighting changes and revise the national standards, at the same time, LED lighting apparatus separately, clear the specific requirements. According to experts, in the past, the relevant standards and the LED will not be listed separately to do strict rules. Guangdong is the main province of mainland LED products, including Dongguan and Zhongshan have a considerable scale of LED industrial clusters. According to incomplete statistics, the annual export of Dongguan enterprises reached 1 billion yuan, accounting for about 20% of the country's total. KingSun, 100% LED and other leading technology enterprises, have set up sales offices in korea. South Korea's changes to make LED export enterprises affected.

The day before, inside and outside the province, 10 experts and 10 LED leading enterprises responsible people gathered to participate in the "City Museum of science and technology, G/TBT/N/KOR/234, No. 235, informed the council". The Council will be sponsored by the China WTO/TBT National Information Center, the Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau of the WTO/TBT advisory research center and the city of quality and technical supervision standards and codes. In accordance with the principle of transparency in the agreement on technical barriers to trade (TBT) under the framework of the WTO, members can advise the advisory body of the proposed technical measures, the time limit is 60 days. Therefore, experts and representatives of various enterprises through the Council on the proposed technical standards to be amended to make comments and suggestions. Many members believe that although the standard for the new LED lamp with a converter set the technical requirements, but there is no corresponding detection method, which may be a big loophole. Organizers said they will be submitted to the South Korea to submit these views in order to maximize the convenience of LED export enterprises.