Mexico Revised Standards For Textiles And Clothing Labels

In December 23, 2011, the Ministry of economic affairs of Mexico issued a resolution to amend the official label of textiles and clothing in Mexico for the standard NOM-004-SCFI of 2006. This standard determines the label standard of textile products, clothing, accessories and household products, and the 2006 standard was first published in the official federal Bulletin of Mexico in June 21, 2006.

The new requirement came into force in February 23, 2012.

The revised provisions apply to most textile products, of which textile components exceed 50% of the quantity.

This includes all clothing products, as well as related clothing and household bed products.

However, the identification requirement does not include some disposable products and household products.

Exceptions include oven.

After the new revision was completed, the standard NMX-A-099-INNTEX was replaced by NMX-A-099-INNTEX-2007 (textile fiber and filament terms and classification) in 2005. In 2004, the NMX-A 240-INNTE was replaced by NMX-A-240-INNTEX-2009 (maintenance specification for textile and garment items) specifications.

Trademark Regulation

According to the federal consumer protection act, all commercial information must be specified in Spanish, but can be attached to any other language.

If a product has a lining, if the lining is used with the same material, the lining does not need to repeat business information.

Fiber is less than 5% of the total, and may be regarded as "other".

When two or more fibers in each product are below 5%, cocoa can see the total as "other".

For example, 60% cotton and 30% polyester, 4% nylon, 4% spandex and 2% acrylic acid can be regarded as 60% cotton, 30% polyester, 10% others.

Textiles containing two or more fibers must list each fiber content of 5% or more.

The total list must be 100%.

The term "wool" may include sheep or lambs, rabbit hair and cashmere fibers, and may include camel hair, alpacas, llamas and llama fibers, as well as reprocessed or recycled wool products.

For example: 55% camel 45% alpacas, can be expressed as: 100% wool.

For textiles, household bedding, clothing and accessories, two or more fiber tolerances are allowed to be 3%.

This refers to the tolerance of the total amount of each fiber, not the total amount of a product.

When a product label says 40% cotton, its actual cotton content may be 37%-43%.

Note that the 3% tolerance rule does not apply to single fiber products (e.g. 100% cotton).

The country of origin of the finished product should be stated in Spanish or in accordance with the official official code of foreign trade general rule.

Brand name

Fiber composition (Mexico standard NMX-A-099-INNTEX-2007)

size

Cleaning / maintenance instructions

Country of origin (Mexico standard NMX-A-2009240-INNTEX)

For individuals: the name and address of the manufacturer or importer, and the number of voluntary federal taxpayer registration (RFC).

For the company: the name and address of the manufacturer or importer, and the voluntary RFC number.

The information must be marked on the permanent label of the product, on the temporary label or on the sealed package.