Battery Ban Proposal May Raise Electronics Prices

The Department of Transportation is proposing to tighten the rules around the air transportation of small batteries. Lithium batteries, in particular, are going to affected if this passes, causing shipping prices to go way up. This will likely result in the additional cost being absorbed by you, the consumer. Nice.

The proposed changes would affect everything from power tools to defibrillators and iPads. Even button battery-powered hearing aids would be impacted, [George Kerchner] said. And by making the U.S. stricter than the International Civil Aviation Organization that governs the rest of the world, Kerchner said, it will require manufacturers and shippers to make sweeping, costly changes to how they package, label and ship consumer electronics and computer goods.

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