Business Discussion: Export Enterprises Should Have More "Focus" on Clothing Labels

In recent years, the clothing label has gradually become the focus of the European Union, the United States and other countries on setting up technical trade measures for China’s garment exports. However, China's relevant export clothing enterprises have not paid enough attention to the label. Inspection and quarantine departments are also not optimistic about the results of random checks on labels in daily inspection and supervision. The incidents of returning goods and claims due to unqualified export clothing labels often occur.

There are three main reasons for the unsuitability of apparel component labels: garment manufacturers are not aware of the true composition of the fabric, and their self-risk awareness is not strong. They blindly depend on the ingredient labels provided by suppliers and do not timely test and verify the fabric components of the fabric. The general increase in the prices of textile raw materials at home and abroad, and the increase in cost, has led some textile companies to use some characteristics of low-grade fabrics that are difficult to distinguish through appearances to reduce costs, in order to obtain greater benefits; they do not understand the regulations on fiber content errors in different destination countries. Taking blended apparel as an example, it can be found through the table that many countries and regions in the United States, the European Union and other countries have different mandatory regulations. Therefore, we must correctly label the textile ingredients to ensure that the export products meet the requirements of importing countries.

Although the label is small, but it reflects the integrity of exporters, it is an important indicator of product quality or not, but also the specific performance of exporters responsible for consumers. In order to avoid trade disputes and protect the quality and reputation of “Made in China” garments, as a regulatory authority, we should strengthen the supervision and guidance on the labeling of apparel components, establish a quality and safety supervision mechanism with clear responsibilities between the supervision department and the company, and promptly identify problems. , timely notification, and jointly safeguard the credibility of China's product quality.

In the daily supervision and inspection, the on-site staff should have the ability to conduct preliminary inspections and strictly meet the first level. Organize professional training on fiber composition identification, compile the most common part of fibers and their identification methods into work instructions, and standardize the sampling inspection of fabrics, so that first-line inspection and quarantine personnel can accurately grasp relevant knowledge of on-site identification. For example, preliminary characterization by simple combustion method and microscopy can identify most natural fibers and chemical fibers more accurately.

Different countries and regions have different requirements for label components. For example, a company that previously only made Asian orders cannot fully understand the standards of Europe, the United States, or Japan, nor is it accurate in terms of process flow and product quality. If it is detected by the importing country, If you fail to pass the inspection, you may lose your shipment. This requires that export clothing companies have a targeted understanding of the new trends of the importing country's label components on textiles and clothing, and timely grasp relevant laws and regulations to achieve a targeted effect. At the same time, inspection and quarantine departments should go deep into enterprises and provide relevant companies with the latest information on domestic and foreign quality information and requirements for new technology laws and regulations so that export companies can acquire accurate information in a relatively short period of time and regulate exports according to the requirements of exporting countries. Garment ingredient identification to reduce the risk of export.

Once the major suppliers of raw materials for exporting companies have changed, they should promptly file with the inspection and quarantine department. Apparel exporting companies should verify that the supplier's apparel fabrics are consistent with the ordering of the component labels. The fabrics of the uncertain fabric should be examined by the authorized laboratories, and the test results should be used to determine the composition labels of the fabrics. The inspection and quarantine department should establish a supervision mechanism with the supply chain as a key control point, strengthen the inspection of clothing raw material components, cooperate with irregular factory inspections, and focus on checking enterprise procurement, production, testing, etc., and timely understand the quality of the company's products and ensure that Export clothing quality level.

We will sort out and export apparel companies, especially new ones, within the jurisdiction, and classify them as one, two, or three companies according to their grades, with different emphasis on different types of companies. According to the specific circumstances, the company shall take daily supervision, special supervision, or key supervision. For example, garments exported to Japan are not allowed to contain foreign objects such as broken needles. We will carry out special supervision on products exported to Japan; For companies that focus on sensitive products such as underwear, we can use key forms of supervision. Through different means of supervision, it is possible to solve some key issues in a targeted manner and improve the efficiency of inspection and supervision work.

Guide and supervise enterprises to establish an effective procurement self-inspection system. In order to raise the risk awareness of product quality, enterprises should select raw material suppliers with better management and higher credibility, strictly follow the requirements of the contract for production and processing, and at the same time when signing contracts with importers, they cannot blindly reduce costs in order to obtain orders. , Purchasing cheap raw materials and reducing product quality. A complete set of procurement self-inspection system must include: import list of each batch of raw materials, raw material quality inspection report, internal record of buyer and quality inspector, and supplier's detailed information. If there is a problem with the raw material of the product, a quality accident report must also be added. Through the establishment of the procurement self-inspection system, enterprises and supervisory departments have made clearer and more dynamic control and understanding of the quality system of raw materials.

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China, Japan, the United States and the European Union's fiber content error provisions for blended fabrics comparison Country/region fiber name China according to the percentage of quality in order to identify the fiber composition, the tolerance is 5%, filling tolerance is 10%; when a certain fiber content ≤ At 15% (filler ≤ 30%), the fiber content tolerance is 30% of the nominal value.

Japan's fiber content is expressed as a percentage by mass. If the content of one of the fibers exceeds 80%, it can be identified by “above” (not less than), and the remaining fibers can be identified by “not full” (below).

The United States identifies the quality percentage in turn, and the fiber content tolerance is 3%. When the content of a certain kind of fiber in the blended product is more than 85%, its mass percentage should be written after the name, or “minimum 85%”, or the mass percentage of each component of the product.

In the absence of a fiber content of 85% in the EU blend, the name and mass percentage of the two main fibers should be indicated at least, and the names of the other fibers should be written in order of mass. However, when all kinds of fibers are less than 10%, use “other fibers” to indicate them uniformly, or give the percentage of each fiber component of the blended product: 2% of foreign fibers can be allowed in textile products, but it must be proved The fiber is due to technical reasons. If a rough process is used, it can be relaxed to 5%. The mark content and actual test results can allow 3% of the processing error.

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