Compared with similar regulations in Europe and the United States, the stricter CR regulations for Japanese lighters will be formally implemented on the 27th of this month. For Cixi lighters, which account for one-third of the total number of lighters imported from Japan, this may be an important test. The reporter recently learned from the Municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau that Cixi lighter companies have sent representatives of enterprises to participate in the Ministry of Commerce delegation and negotiated with the Japanese government.
The CR Code is an abbreviation for ChildResistantSafetyMechanismforLighter in English, and refers to an abbreviation for installing a device for preventing children from opening and improving the safety performance of a lighter.
On November 18 last year, in response to a number of fire accidents caused by children playing lighters in Japan, the Tokyo Fire Department submitted a “Child Safety Lighter Countermeasures†report to the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and recommended that the Japanese government draw up similar CR regulations. Subsequently, the relevant Japanese departments and agencies held many meetings, and set up a working group of lighters, and finally decided to implement CR regulations on disposable plastic electronic lighters, grinding wheel lighters, and plastic lighters since December 27 this year.
According to relevant experts from the City Lighters Association, compared with similar regulations in the United States and Europe, Japan’s CR regulations do not use price as a criterion for judging the safety limit of lighters, but some more stringent terms are attached, such as the ISO 9494 safety standard for international lighters. Mandatory requirements and limits the weight of the lighter. Moreover, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has entrusted the Japanese Stationery Safety Test Institute as the authoritative body for testing and testing lighters. Chinese export companies can only obtain qualified labels through inspection and inspection by the Institute. This is the “pass†for future sales of disposable lighters in the Japanese market. ".
As the country’s lighter production and export base, Cixi currently provides 1/3 of the total amount of lighters imported from Japan. Therefore, the implementation of the Japanese lighter CR regulations will seriously affect Cixi's lighter production and export. For Cixi lighter companies, it is another major test after the European and American CR regulations.
Since August of this year, affected by the unfavorable factors of Japan's imminent implementation of the CR regulations, the domestic importers of lighters have consumed the inventory of non-CR lighters, and the volume of orders has decreased, and Cixi's export of lighters to Japan has begun to decline. Customs statistics show that in the first 11 months of this year, Cixi’s total exports of lighters to Japan amounted to US$24.14 million, a year-on-year decrease of 11%, accounting for 14.6% of the city’s total lighter exports, and accounting for a decrease of 3.7 percentage points from the end of 2009.
At present, Cixi major lighter companies have taken active actions to respond to Japanese CR regulations. According to the related business personnel of Ningbo Xinhai Electric Co., Ltd., the company maintains communication with the largest importer of electronic lighters in Japan, and has previously met the EU's CR regulations, and currently meets the Japanese requirements for certification. After the standard is formally introduced, adjustments will be made accordingly. In the next step, the Japanese Stationery Safety Testing Institute will be invited to carry out product certification, and efforts will be made to minimize the impact of the CR regulations.
Similarly, the general manager of Ningbo Donghai Lier International Trade Co., Ltd. stated that at present, the company is accelerating technological improvement, improving the internal management level of the factory and actively communicating with the largest importer of lighters in Japan. After the formal introduction of the Japanese CR standard on the 27th, the company will strive to pass it. The other’s factory determines that it will maintain and expand its market share in Japan.
The CR Code is an abbreviation for ChildResistantSafetyMechanismforLighter in English, and refers to an abbreviation for installing a device for preventing children from opening and improving the safety performance of a lighter.
On November 18 last year, in response to a number of fire accidents caused by children playing lighters in Japan, the Tokyo Fire Department submitted a “Child Safety Lighter Countermeasures†report to the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and recommended that the Japanese government draw up similar CR regulations. Subsequently, the relevant Japanese departments and agencies held many meetings, and set up a working group of lighters, and finally decided to implement CR regulations on disposable plastic electronic lighters, grinding wheel lighters, and plastic lighters since December 27 this year.
According to relevant experts from the City Lighters Association, compared with similar regulations in the United States and Europe, Japan’s CR regulations do not use price as a criterion for judging the safety limit of lighters, but some more stringent terms are attached, such as the ISO 9494 safety standard for international lighters. Mandatory requirements and limits the weight of the lighter. Moreover, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has entrusted the Japanese Stationery Safety Test Institute as the authoritative body for testing and testing lighters. Chinese export companies can only obtain qualified labels through inspection and inspection by the Institute. This is the “pass†for future sales of disposable lighters in the Japanese market. ".
As the country’s lighter production and export base, Cixi currently provides 1/3 of the total amount of lighters imported from Japan. Therefore, the implementation of the Japanese lighter CR regulations will seriously affect Cixi's lighter production and export. For Cixi lighter companies, it is another major test after the European and American CR regulations.
Since August of this year, affected by the unfavorable factors of Japan's imminent implementation of the CR regulations, the domestic importers of lighters have consumed the inventory of non-CR lighters, and the volume of orders has decreased, and Cixi's export of lighters to Japan has begun to decline. Customs statistics show that in the first 11 months of this year, Cixi’s total exports of lighters to Japan amounted to US$24.14 million, a year-on-year decrease of 11%, accounting for 14.6% of the city’s total lighter exports, and accounting for a decrease of 3.7 percentage points from the end of 2009.
At present, Cixi major lighter companies have taken active actions to respond to Japanese CR regulations. According to the related business personnel of Ningbo Xinhai Electric Co., Ltd., the company maintains communication with the largest importer of electronic lighters in Japan, and has previously met the EU's CR regulations, and currently meets the Japanese requirements for certification. After the standard is formally introduced, adjustments will be made accordingly. In the next step, the Japanese Stationery Safety Testing Institute will be invited to carry out product certification, and efforts will be made to minimize the impact of the CR regulations.
Similarly, the general manager of Ningbo Donghai Lier International Trade Co., Ltd. stated that at present, the company is accelerating technological improvement, improving the internal management level of the factory and actively communicating with the largest importer of lighters in Japan. After the formal introduction of the Japanese CR standard on the 27th, the company will strive to pass it. The other’s factory determines that it will maintain and expand its market share in Japan.
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