Selling to the EU from Thailand

No, not in force. Negotiations were relaunched and are continuing; nothing applies today, so your goods pay the ordinary tariff. Watch the date if talks conclude; the preference is worth several percent on most manufactured goods.

Yes. The Responsible Person must be established inside the EU; a Thai company cannot take the role. Most Thai exporters appoint a paid service, €200–800 per year per catalogue.

No. Trade preferences affect customs duty only; product-safety rules apply regardless of the origin country's trade status. GPSR, CE, EPR and the Responsible Person sit on top of any tariff arrangement.

Most likely: no valid EU Responsible Person recorded against the listing. Marketplaces suspend listings that lack it; regardless of the product itself. Upload the Responsible Person in Seller Central under Manage Your Compliance.

Manufacturer and Responsible Person name and address, a product identifier, and warnings in the language of every country you sell into. A Thai-only label fails everywhere in the EU.

Rubber is one of the seven commodities in Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, so a Thai rubber chain is squarely inside it. The statement that has to be filed before customs is the EU operator's, not yours, but it is built almost entirely from data only you can supply: the geolocation of every plot the latex came from, the date or period of production, and enough evidence that the plot was not deforested after 31 December 2020. Sheet rubber and block rubber that has passed through a dealer and a processor is the hard case, because the plot identity is normally lost at the first collection point; the buyers that will still be buying in 2027 are the ones rebuilding that link now. Dates: 30 December 2026 for large and medium operators, 30 June 2027 for micro and small enterprises.

For electrical and electronic equipment, two directives with two different mechanics, plus the batteries regulation. RoHS (Directive 2011/65/EU, Annex II as amended by Delegated Directive (EU) 2015/863) restricts ten substances: lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, the brominated flame retardants PBB and PBDE, and the four phthalates DEHP, BBP, DBP and DIBP. The limit is not measured on the appliance as a whole but per homogeneous material (Article 4(2)): a solder joint, a cable sheath, a piece of housing, a coating each has to stay under the limit on its own, so a test report on a whole appliance as one sample proves nothing. Cadmium is capped at 0.01 % by weight, the other nine at 0.1 %. The phthalates have applied since 22 July 2019, and since 22 July 2021 for medical devices and monitoring and control instruments; they do not apply to cables or spare parts for equipment placed on the market before those dates. RoHS is proven in the technical file and there is nothing to register, but Article 9 gives the EU importer his own checks, and under Article 11 an importer who sells under his own name or trade mark, or modifies the equipment, is treated as the manufacturer.

WEEE (Directive 2012/19/EU) is a registration in the national producer register of each member state where the equipment is placed on the market (Article 16); there is no EU-wide register. On goods brought in from Thailand the EU importer is himself the 'producer' under Article 3(1)(f)(iii), so the registration and collection duties are his, not the Thai maker's. An authorised representative under Article 17 does not solve it: that article covers producers established in another EU member state, as a possibility rather than a duty (Article 17(1)), and distance sellers who are themselves established in a member state (Article 17(2)). A producer in a third country falls under neither. WEEE is a directive, so check the national transposition and the national register per member state.

Anything with a cell or a battery pack in it also falls under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, whose Chapter VIII has applied since 18 August 2025. Here too the producer is whoever first makes the battery available on a member state's market on a professional basis, normally your EU importer (Article 3(47)(c)). He must be entered in that member state's producer register before he may make them available, including batteries already built into an appliance or a vehicle (Article 55(2)), in each member state where he himself first supplies them rather than in every member state the goods later reach. The take-back and collection duties themselves sit in Article 56 and Articles 59 to 61, not in Article 55, and the competent authority has up to 12 weeks to register him once the file is complete (Article 55(9)(b)). Parts supplied to a vehicle manufacturer follow that manufacturer's type approval instead; parts sold as spares to consumers do not.

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