EU's New Regulation &Nbsp; China's Leather Exports Are Facing New "Green" Barriers.

Since June 1st, it has been completely new. REACH regulation It will be implemented in the European Union. "This has raised a difficult problem for our city to export more leather, socks, sofa and other enterprises to the European Union. It may well be that the product is rejected by the European Union if it is not careful. Yesterday, the relevant people of the Municipal Bureau of foreign affairs introduced the "green" concept. Trade Barriers, many enterprises are taking action to deal with them positively.

REACH influence Exit

It is understood that the REACH regulations refer to the "registration, evaluation, licensing and restriction of chemicals", which is a chemical management law for the EU to carry out preventive management of all chemicals entering its market. The law came into effect in June 1, 2007 and is enforceable in June 1st this year.

The REACH regulation has a wide range of influence. Besides having a direct impact on chemical enterprises, it will also affect enterprises that produce chemical downstream products including textile, electromechanical, toys, furniture and so on. At the same time, the inspection fees and related maintenance costs of declared chemicals are also very expensive, which will greatly increase the export cost of enterprises. REACH lists substances that may have serious effects on human health and environment in various products, and lists them in SVHC. Its list has been updated year by year, and the first batch has announced 15 kinds, and this year it has added another 8 species. Many chemicals, such as socks, sofa and leather products, are used in our city.

The REACH regulations stipulate that all high paying substances should be notified to the EU chemicals authority before June 1st. They will be granted a pass through registration and evaluation procedures, otherwise they will not be able to enter the European Union. The formal implementation of this law will have a great impact on the enterprises that are mainly exported to the European Union.

Enterprises should respond positively

Our city currently has more than 300 leather products export enterprises. Last year, the export of leather products (excluding finished sofa) reached US $280 million, an increase of 7.7% over the same period last year. Leather clothing exports $142 million, leather sofa sets export volume of $94 million.

"If this law is implemented, if it fails to register and declare in time, it will have a significant negative impact on many export enterprises." City Leather Association responsible person said, now leather industry involves 8 kinds of highly concerned substances, if not timely notification, the future will be identified by the EU may refuse to import, resulting in serious consequences, so now we should be prepared early, and actively respond to. "Now, many enterprises are consulting the leather industry in a specific high degree of concern about what material and so on."

In addition, socks and sofa are also the most concentrated export products in our city. 38% of the total export volume of socks is exported to the European Union. Yesterday, the head of a hosiery enterprise in our city said in an interview: "the baby products made by the enterprise directly fit the baby's skin, and the requirements will be higher. The chemicals used will receive more attention. If you make deodorant socks, you will add more chemical components, so they are all within the scope of REACH regulations. She said that it will study the specific regulations and the next step carefully, "this is a" canon ", but I believe it will be able to get over it.