Quoting from [China Shipper]:


How to get RoHS compliance.

There are lot of useful infomation regarding ROHS been posted, here is a summary for everyone to know:

RoHS standard will affect trade of electronics items?

• Rohs is a European Union Standard for electrical devices.  You can get more info about it at: http://www.rohs.gov.uk by Ranger
  
• RoHS will make the price of electric item higher. in the range of kitchenwares, the supplier add 5%-8% more or less. by dennis
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoHS by detronic
• It stands for Restriction Of Hazardous Substance. This is a directive put forth by the European Union which states that from July 1, 2006 new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market does not contain lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE). RoHS compliments the Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive. RoHS concerns related to following products:
  
  Aluminum
  
  Cadmium
  
  Chromium
  
  Lead
  
  Plastic
  
  Stainless Steel
  
  Zinc Plating
  
  
  RoHS compliant products are normally priced at least 10% higher than non-RoHS products. by cbeebies
  
• http://tonyinspection.blogsome.com/2006/07/05/faq-on-rohs-and-weee/ by tonyinspection
  
• ROHS is a new government idee to destroy the trade between chinese and eu countries because the environment and pollution in the EU. The economic People has made the new idee in this and normally nobody in the EU, like H.H.Customs know how to solved the problem and checking of the ROHS, also Nobody knows which certificates are accepted as well to prove by example that in some product is not more then 100mg cadmium inside per KG. nett weight, it is a big mass in this ROHS
  
  which is come from the EU in Brussel, but nobody knows exactly how to handle it with this regulations. by josephus