Central American Countries Plan To Issue Technical Specifications For Labeling Footwear Products

The Salvadoran Technical Regulation Authority (Organismo Salvadore ? o de Regimentaci ó n T é cnica, OSARTEC) sent a notice to the WTO in February this year, stating its intention to prepare the Central American technical regulations《 shoes Technical Specification for Class I Products and Components No. 61.01.03:12: Labeling Requirements 1. The five Central American countries concerned are Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras.

The technical specifications mentioned in the notice are applicable to those sold separately in the consumer markets of the five countries mentioned above Footwear products And component labeling requirements. Labels shall be in Spanish/Castile. The contents of the label can be marked, printed, sewn or pasted on the footwear products or hung or attached to the products. The content of the label must be clear, permanent and readable when consumers purchase and use it. This must also be the case when parts of footwear products are sold separately, and such labels must be affixed to at least one shoe in a pair of shoes.

According to this draft technical regulation, the following types of footwear products are excluded:

Toy shoes;

Protective shoes (fireproof);

Light disposable or non long-term short boots, such as those without soles spin Short boots made of paper or synthetic materials;

Note: The labels of footwear products must be affixed in accordance with national laws and regulations.

The information required in the draft technical regulation to be included in the labels of footwear products and components:

Country of origin;

Name and address of manufacturer or distributor of domestic manufactured products;

The name and address of the importer or distributor of the imported product.

about shoes Information on materials used by each component (text description or pictures of shoe components must be provided);

Dimensions of footwear products;

Other information necessary to wear footwear products in the best way.

Other information required for labeling:

If the language of the original label is not Spanish/Castile, the Spanish/Castile label containing these information shall be provided;

The required content can be on one or more labels, which is at the discretion of the manufacturer or importer;

The height of the letter used for marking these information on the label (the distance from the baseline to the top of the letter) shall not be less than 1mm;

The color of narrative text should be in sharp contrast with the background color, and the text should be clear and legible in normal use;

The material information provided on the label shall indicate at least 80% of the upper surface, lining and midsole materials, and at least 80% of the sole volume; If no one material accounts for more than one, the label must provide information about the two main materials that make up the shoes;

Mark Shoe size The number of must be attached to each shoe, must be eye-catching and legible;

When shoes are packed in boxes or other packages, the size of shoes must also be marked on the packages.