Europe, The United States, Japan And Other Foreign Target Market Textiles And Clothing Quality Authorities And Related Regulations And Standards

1.1 European Union's testing standards for textiles and garments

The EU does not have a special standard setting body, and the CEN (EU Standardization Committee) is mainly implemented.

Coordinate the standards of member countries and formulate the necessary CEN (European standard). Most of the CEN standards are the same as those of ISO.

The EU's own statutes and standards are slightly different from the EU's uniform laws and regulations, both in terms of technology and conditions.

As one of the origins of modern textile industry, the textile standard system in Britain has a set of (BSBN) standard system besides the fairly perfect British Standard (CBS).

The German standard (DIN) is also quite grim and complete. The current control standards for hazardous substances come from the DIN standard.

1.2 product quality agency and test standard

The quality control agencies and standards of textiles in the United States mainly include: AATCC standard (American textile dyers and Chemists Association), ASTM standard (American material test co operation), CPSC (federal consumer product safety commission) and FTC compulsory standard (Federal Trade Commission).

In addition, the United States has formulated many technical regulations for textile and clothing: textile fiber products Identification Act, wool products labeling act, fur product label act, fair packaging and labelling law, fabric flammability regulations, child chapter Nong burning regulations, feather and down products processing regulations and so on.

The United States is a relatively mature market, and a very important problem facing the US market is product quality certification.

That is to say, the key to the circulation of a product in the United States lies in whether the product can obtain a license after testing by the authoritative Inspection Department of the United States.

There are two common standards for textile and apparel products in the United States.

(1) FTC rules

FTC (Federal Trade Committee) is the abbreviation of the Federal Trade Commission of the United States.

FTC requires that the textiles exported to the United States be marked with ingredients and protective labels, and restrict the entry to the US market of those textiles that contain no FTC approved ingredients.

FTC will also analyze the composition of textiles to determine whether the composition reports are consistent with the actual results.

(2) INTER Yu Measuring Center (Textiles / clothing)

The 0NTER inspection center performs physical testing of textiles and garments, such as fiber, chemical composition, elasticity, maintenance, flammability, coloring, fading, other chemical hazards and import quotas.

In January 2000,

The consultative center and the China Council for trade promotion have negotiated and reached an agreement. The global business information company, which is authorized by the 3 authoritative laboratories of the United States, is bidding for the US standard testing and certification business in Beijing. Its products include food, medicine, health products, cosmetics, textiles and electronic products.

In this way, our enterprises can go through the US standard testing business without leaving the country.

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1.3 Japanese textile and garment testing standards and technical regulations

Japan is very "picky about the quality of textiles and clothing". Japanese consumers are known for their "extreme fastidious". Japanese consumers have reached the concentration of perfect quality for clothing quality, so Japanese traders are very demanding on the quality of clothing accessories.

In the Japanese textile market, more than 70% of the products are made in China. The price of the imported products is at a low price. When these goods enter Japan, the trade association has a strict product quality standard as the basis for the audit. One can be divided into three specifications, namely, the Japanese Industrial standard (JISL), the Product Liability Act (p/L) and the product quality standard.

(1) Japanese industrial standards (JIsl. regulations)

This regulation stipulates various standards and methods for textile quality inspection, with detailed safety and functional standards.

For example, in the JISL0217 Ordinance, the processing instructions for fiber products indicate signs and other methods of expression, which contain clear descriptions of the requirements for cleaning icons, warning words, specifications, sizes, composition and origin.

(2) Product Liability Act (P/L)

The manufacturer shall be responsible for the loss of life or property caused by the poor manufacturing of the product; when the product is damaged, it will not be investigated if it does not cause damage to others or articles; if the accident caused by the manufacture or production of the product is harmful to consumers, the manufacturer should pay compensation; if there is any design problem, such as material, specification, processing, etc., during the manufacturing process, problems such as material damage, or damage to the skin caused by residues, or damage to the skin caused by the residues of formalin, etc., should be compensated.

(3) product quality standard Determination

Japanese retailers can generally be divided into large department stores, hypermarkets, chain stores, mail orders, and distributors that directly provide suppliers of sellers.

According to the above two regulations and Japanese consumers' complaints about the quality of the goods, the general sales associations reflect the upstream manufacturing industry, and then integrate the manufacturing industry's internal demand, constantly update the product or raise the quality to a certain level.

In terms of quality standards, it is usually tested for various textiles or clothing accessories from physical properties, dyeing fastness, product specifications, safety (pesticide residues will be mistreat, injury, etc.), appearance of products, sewing and so on.

Physical properties include dimensional change, shrinkage, tensile strength, rupture strength, Young's coefficient (elasticity, expansion coefficient), anti fuzzing ball, fluff retention, waterproof, hydrophilic, wrinkle resistant, etc.

Dyeing fastness includes sunlight fastness, water resistance, friction resistance, dry cleaning, sublimation and so on.

Special functional properties: moisture absorption, quick drying, antibacterial and odorant, anti ultraviolet, far-infrared thermal insulation, form stability, etc.

Product specifications include composition, density, count and so on.

Product safety includes formaldehyde (formalin) content, pesticide residue, PH and combustion.

Sewing and appearance include tag, washing label and so on.

When these companies or companies import textile and apparel accessories from China, they will set up a set of quality inspection standards, and require manufacturers to obtain qualified certification or authorization from designated quality inspection institutions (such as inspection companies) before they are allowed to be listed for sale in Japan.

In addition, Japan's inspection of broken needles is strict because the Japanese government has imposed heavy penalties on producers and sellers of broken needles on textiles and clothing, as stipulated in the consumer protection law promulgated in the form of legislation.

On the basis of these requirements, in addition to adapting to the world trend in production and enhancing the quality of products, we should also put forward corresponding market accreditation inspection standards and inspection specifications as soon as possible in the field of market certification, the introduction of new cloth or new processing technology, such as negative ion processing, so as to improve the grade of products.