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Macau prohibits the import, export, and transportation of 14 types of mercury added products, with comprehensive control starting from January 1, 2026!
Time：
2025-10-15
Macau prohibits the import, export, and transportation of fourteen mercury added products, effective from January 1, 2026.
According to the Chief Executive's Announcement No. 50/2017 and Announcement No. 7/2025, the Minamata Convention on Mercury and its amendments have come into effect in the Macau Special Administrative Region. In order to comply with the requirements of the Convention, the Macao SAR government has issued Executive Order No. 109/2025, which prohibits the import, export, and transit of fourteen mercury added products. The ban will come into effect on January 1, 2026.
Prohibition applies to products
- battery
- Switches and relays
- Compact fluorescent lamps for general lighting purposes
- The following are straight tube and non straight tube fluorescent lamps (such as U-shaped and circular) used for general lighting purposes; Tri color phosphors, all wattages; Halogen phosphate fluorescent powder, all wattage
- High pressure mercury lamps for general lighting purposes
- Cold cathode fluorescent lamps and external electrode fluorescent lamps of various lengths used for electronic displays;
- Cosmetics, including brightening soap and cream, excluding eye cosmetics with mercury as preservative and no effective and safe alternative preservative
- Pesticides, biological insecticides, and local antibacterial agents
- The following non electronic measuring instruments: barometer, hygrometer, pressure gauge, thermometer, sphygmomanometer
- Strain gauges used in volumetric recorders
- The following electrical and electronic measuring instruments: melt pressure sensor, melt pressure transmitter, melt pressure sensor
- Mercury vacuum pump
- Tire balancer and wheel balance block
- Photographic film and paper
This ban does not apply to mercury containing products used for research, instrument calibration, or reference standards.
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