EU Standards Let Nanjing'S Export Of Large Shoe Enterprises Be Blocked

Since a German company in Germany requested to provide a test report on products containing no high attention substances and restrictive substances, 200 thousand pairs of leather shoes exported by a Nanjing company suffered from a "red light". This is the first light industry enterprise in Nanjing that failed to detect in accordance with EU REACH regulations and thus affected exports.

It is understood that the company is a large footwear manufacturer in Nanjing, and signed a deal with a German company a few months ago to export 200 thousand pairs of leather shoes.

Subsequently, the company organized workers to work overtime, finished the shipment on schedule, and was ready to export to Germany in early February this year.

Where the other party refused to import, the reason was that the leather shoes did not confirm the chemical composition of the raw materials according to the EU REACH regulations, and could not provide test reports to prove that the rubber shoes and leather contained no aromatic substances and six chromium compounds.

At present, the leather shoes are still in detention in Nanjing, and Nanjing entry exit inspection and quarantine bureau is conducting relevant tests.

Liu Hongbin, director of the REACh Consultancy Service Center for the Jiangsu inspection and Quarantine Association, said that since last June 1st, the pre registration of the EU REACH regulations has been officially launched.

This is a mandatory regulation for preventive management of all chemicals entering the market in the EU. Relevant agencies will carry out registration, testing, evaluation and market access for about 30 thousand kinds of chemicals.

The downstream products of these chemicals, such as textile, rubber, electrical and mechanical equipment, must be verified and registered with REACH if the raw materials contain chemical components.

"In the past, the focus of REACH focused more on some chemical enterprises. In fact, light industry enterprises should also attach importance to REACH."

Liu Hongbin said that some dyes, additives or polymer materials in textiles, light industry and electromechanical products will inevitably contain chemicals.

Preliminary estimate that there are nearly 3 enterprises in Jiangsu, including light industry textile, medicine, electronics, electrical and mechanical industries, which will use downstream products.

Liu Hongbin said that in November 30th last year, the REACH law was pre registered as at the end of the day, but at present, there are still some related export enterprises in our province not pre registered, facing the embarrassment that the products can not enter the EU market.

However, at the moment, the EU is accepting the pre registration of manufacturers or importers for the first time to export to the European Union. Enterprises should take the time to make up the "tickets" to enter the EU market.

Wang Xiaonan: editor in charge