RoHS is a good example of them shooting themselves in the foot. They managed to get almost all the components certified, because they never used much lead anyway. But with the ROW still willing to accept non-RoHS, the fabricators in China will quote you one price for RoHS, and a cheaper price for non. Bottom line: products headed for the EU are more expensive than the functionally identical products elsewhere. On the one hand, they did get all the parts to conform (at nominal cost). On the other hand, they didn’t for the final product. Fail.
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