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Practice review: environmental compliance and product market access
Hazardous-substance limits, recycling, and energy-efficiency rules are becoming hard gates for goods.
A typical scenario: a product is kept out of a market or faces recall for failing the target market's hazardous-substance limits, packaging-recycling, or energy-efficiency standards.
Environmental product-compliance requirements are increasingly strict and often mandatory conditions of market access.
The lesson: assess target-market environmental requirements before export, build standards in at design and sourcing, and keep declarations and test evidence.