I certainly don't know all the legal ins and outs, but my previous employer certainly made things that were shipped to all parts of the world. It was custom scientific gear, however, and certainly not any kind of a commercial mass-marketed product, so it remains exempt. They report that the exemptions get stricter every year, so they expect to have to deal with RoHS eventually and are just hoping for now that it remains a far distant problem.
My friend did check with one of the techs today and was told that they have occasionally had to repair lead free boards that had come as part of more commercial products. He reports that it was quite hard to get the dead RoHS parts out of the board.
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