On December 12th, 2025, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) formally approved and implemented the mandatory safety standards for water-absorbing bead toys, aiming at strengthening the safety supervision of children\'s products and preventing potential risks.

Recently, the Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO) officially issued an announcement, announcing that from January 1, 2026, the technical test report that meets the relevant standards of Type-C charging port and power transmission will become a mandatory document for products under the following control to apply for Saudi market certification. The purpose of this new regulation adjustment is to further standardize the market and ensure that the electronic equipment sold in Saudi Arabia meets the unified standards in the safety, performance and interoperability of charging interfaces.

On November 5, 2025, the Ministry of Science, Technology, Information and Communication (MSIT) of Korea officially issued AnnouncementNo. 2025-56, which will force new mobile and smart devices sold in the Korean market to use USB Type-C interface for wired charging and data transmission.

On January 1st, 2026, China RoHS supporting standard GB/T 26572-2011 \"No.1 Amendment\" was officially implemented. The number of controlled substances was expanded from 6 to 10, and the supporting testing methods were updated to GB/T 39560 series standards.

On December 15th, 2025, the Committee of Member States (MSC) of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) unanimously passed at its December meeting, and n-hexane was listed as substances of very high concern (SVHC). It is worth noting that this is the first substance to be included in the candidate list of SVHC because of its neurotoxicity (rather than the traditional categories such as carcinogenicity, mutagenicity and reproductive toxicity).

On December 4, 2025, Vietnam informed the WTO of the draft of the \"National Technical Regulation on Power Batteries for Electric Motorcycles and Electric Mopeds\" (G/TBT/N/VNM/383), proposing to impose mandatory safety and performance requirements on all lead-acid, nickel-metal-hydride and lithium-ion batteries produced, assembled or imported in Vietnam. The deadline for the review of this regulation is February 2, 2026. It is expected that after implementation, it will become a \"hard threshold\" for electric motorcycle batteries to enter the Vietnamese market. Relevant export enterprises need to make early preparations for compliance work!

On December 12th, 2025, the European Union published the Toy Safety Regulation (EU) 2025/2509(TSR) in its Official Gazette (OJ). The regulation will take effect on January 1, 2026, 20 days after its promulgation, and will be implemented after August 1, 2030 (55 months). At that time, the current toy safety directive 2009/48/EC(TSD) will be abolished.

On December 16th, 2025, the European Commission issued the implementation resolution (EU) 2025/2519 to update the harmonized standards referred to in the toy safety directive (2009/48/EC), involving two toy standards, EN 71-3 and EN 71-13.