One Week After The Implementation Of The New National Standard, The "Non A" Children'S Clothing Is Still On Sale In Urumqi, Xinjiang

Parents who want to buy clothes for children under the age of 3 should pay attention. The new version of the National Basic Safety Technical Specifications for Textile Products implemented from August 1 clearly stipulates that infants under the age of 3 clothing The label must be marked with the words "Baby products, Class A, GB18401-2010", otherwise production and sales will be prohibited.



On August 8, the reporter visited many infant clothing stores in Urumqi, Xinjiang, and found that a considerable number of substandard clothes were still on sale, and most dealers had never heard of the new national standard.



In Xidan Mall of Railway Bureau and Century Jinma Shopping Center of Wuyi Mall, although most brand stores have changed their new standards, some brands still use the old standards for infant clothing.



"Class B clothes are just a little rough than Class A in workmanship, but the quality is absolutely no problem, and they are all pure cotton." Wang Nannan, a salesperson at ABC Children's Clothing Store in Xidan Mall, said that few of the customers who come to buy baby clothes care about the safety level of clothing; On the contrary, more parents only care about whether the clothes are made of pure cotton. When the reporter mentioned that the new national standard stipulates that children's clothing under the age of 3 must meet the Class A standard, Wang Nannan said that she did not know and did not receive any notice from the company to stop selling Class B clothing.



At the Balabala Children's Clothing Store of the Century Golden Horse Shopping Center in the Wuyi Mall, the reporter also found the baby clothes marked "GB18401-2003, Class B". "There must be a transitional stage in the implementation of the new national standard. The products we are selling are all purchased in July, and it is impossible to implement the new standard." When the reporter asked why the new standard children's clothing was not seen, the shop guide explained.



There are still some high-end children's clothes with higher prices in the franchised stores that have not yet implemented the new standards, so will the low-end children's clothing market with lower prices be even more "chaotic"? The situation that the reporter learned in the Children's Wear City of Urumqi Locomotive Foreign Trade City confirmed this conjecture.



The reporter's visit found that, except for a few brands of close fitting baby clothes that are Class A, other non "A" baby clothes can be seen everywhere in the Locomotive Foreign Trade City. In addition, some infant clothing is not only marked with "Class B", but also without specific ingredients; What's more, some infant clothes only indicate the trademark, color, bar code and price, but not the specific ingredients, safety category, etc.



In a professional children's underwear chain store, the reporter saw that some of the clothing labels suitable for newborn babies in the store still showed Category B. The salesperson of the store said: "I haven't heard of any new standards, but we also have Class A products of the same model, which can be replaced if necessary."



In the Guangzhou boutique children's sweater store, the reporter said that infants and young children aged 2 to 3 need clothes, but the sales staff recommended clothes that did not indicate the safety category on the washing label. Like other businesses, an employee of the store was not aware of the new national standard that had just been implemented. "Our clothes are sold directly by manufacturers. From production to sales, there has never been any quality problem. The safety level marked on the washing label is useless, and we can also print it. As long as the quality is good and the price is cheap, who will care about this?" said the clerk.



The implementation of the new national standard will inevitably increase the cost of manufacturers, but the insiders believe that the domestic children's clothing market needs to be standardized. Unqualified clothes are mixed up. Whether the implementation of the new national standard can raise the price of children's clothing and bring safe clothing to infants still needs time to verify.