According to Fujian Inspection and Quarantine Bureau revealed that recently, the EU and the United States have introduced on textiles, home textile products, the export of new regulations on textile products in nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether (npe) content requirements as well as the list of restricted substances to make updates. Textile and garment enterprises should pay attention.

  The European Union has imposed restrictions on the npe content in textile products, requiring that the npe content in textile products should not be higher than 0.01% (100ppm). The transition period of this regulation is 5 years, after the expiration of the transition period, the products that do not meet the requirements of the limit will not be allowed to be sold in the EU market or imported by the EU countries. npe is widely used in the textile production process for cleaning, dyeing, and washing, etc., and it is the commonly used detergents and dyeing auxiliaries in the textile and apparel industry, which accounts for more than 80% of the market share in China.

  The American Textile, Apparel and Shoe Association recently released the 17th edition of the Restricted Substances List (rsl), a total of 12 categories of more than 250 kinds of apparel, footwear and home textile products banned or restricted substances, the list of new formaldehyde in leather test methods will affect the provinces leather shoes and leather clothing and leather exports.

  Textile and apparel is an important export product of Fujian Province. from January to April, Fujian Province exported textile and apparel products with a total value of 165.7 billion U.S. dollars. Among them, the European Union, the United States is the main export market. Fujian Inspection and Quarantine experts said that the EU and the United States introduced new regulations will have a greater impact on Fujian Province, clothing, indoor textiles, yarn, fabric production enterprises. To this end, Fujian Inspection and Quarantine will guide and help the regions apparel export enterprises to pay attention to the implementation of the EU npe regulations dynamic, grasp the detailed terms of the regulations. At the same time, to strengthen the raw materials and finished products npe content testing, to avoid losing products to the EU more than the limited requirements. At the same time, experts also suggested that the relevant export enterprises should pay attention to the U.S. textile and apparel regulations and new requirements, the quality of raw and auxiliary materials for strict control, and constantly improve the production process and testing methods to ensure that exports to the U.S. textile and apparel products are not due to the quality of anquan problems were notified or recalled.