New Regulations For Textile And Apparel Products In Europe And America Are Strictly Required For Enterprises.

Recently, the European Union and the United States have introduced new regulations on textiles and home textiles exports.

Textile and clothing is an important export product of Jiangsu. The European Union and the United States are also the major exporters. The new regulations will have a significant impact on the relevant export enterprises.

It is understood that although the EU has given a 5 year pition period, there are already EU customers asking textile enterprises to test the export products with new standards, and some products and enterprises will be out in advance.

It happens that there is a similar case,

The seventeenth edition of the restricted substances list (RSL) recently released by the association of textiles, clothing and footwear has listed 12 categories of restricted substances of over 250 garments, footwear and home textiles.

The EU regulation No. twenty-sixth issued in 2016 has restricted the content of nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether (NPE) in textile products.

Regulations require that NPE content in textile products should not exceed 0.01%.

The pitional period of the regulation is 5 years. After the expiration of the pition period, products that do not meet the requirements will not be allowed to be sold or imported in the EU market.

NPE is the most commonly used detergent and dyeing auxiliaries in the textile industry, accounting for more than 80% of China's market share. At present, more than half of the textile products on the market can not meet the new EU standards, or will face

Among them, printing and dyeing, leather and chemical fiber enterprises are the most prominent.

In line with

New regulations, production enterprises need to bleach, dyeing, washing and other processes upgrading, parameter control is more difficult, easy to lead to increase in production costs.

At the same time, the cost of raw materials and testing will increase by 10% to 30%.

The relevant inspection and quarantine organs reminded relevant export enterprises to pay close attention to and follow the progress of the new regulations of the EU and the United States, take the initiative to formulate countermeasures, make full use of the pition period of the new regulations, do well in the research and development of the restricted material substitution products, and at the same time, further strengthen the quality control level, especially in the process of raw material procurement and production, so as to ensure that the export products comply with the laws and regulations and the contract requirements of the importing countries.