The Trend Of Eco Textile Certification

"EU countries have promulgated a series of environmental regulations, implemented safety tests, and restricted the sale of non ecological textiles in the market to limit the export of textiles in China", which was discussed last weekend at the training course of eco textiles certification held by the Fujian Provincial Department of foreign trade and economic cooperation. Wang Ruolin, deputy director of the Department of trade and management of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation, said.

Wang Ruolin talked about such a situation behind it from 36 billion 500 million dollars in 2001 to 107 billion dollars in 2009, and the total export volume of Chinese textile and clothing has increased 3 times in the past 10 years.

The technical barriers to trade set by the European Union and other countries are getting higher and higher.

With the implementation of the ATC agreement and the development of trade liberalization, the traditional trade barriers have been gradually weakened. Trade barriers, represented by "green barriers", have become the largest non-tariff barriers to trade. On the other hand, "consumers in Europe, the United States and Japan also regard the harm to the human body as the primary factor in whether to buy Textiles."

Wang Ruolin said.

Some experts predict that eco textiles / clothing will dominate the future international textile / clothing trade market.

Wang Ruolin said, what is it called?

Due to the fact that there is no uniform textile / clothing ecological standard in the world, relative laws, standards, labels and certification standards and buyers' acceptance standards are mainly concentrated in developed countries represented by the European Union. Their influence on the international trade of textiles / clothing is huge and has been widely recognized.

In this training course, the Department of foreign trade and economic cooperation recommended several well-known international eco textiles.

It is reported that in order to support enterprises to carry out eco textile certification and enhance the competitiveness of our textile and garment export enterprises, the export enterprises with corresponding qualifications for carrying out ecological textiles this year can also receive relevant subsidies from the provincial foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Department.

Related reminder

The EU has a corresponding alarm system.

Huang Haibin, general manager of the Haines Institute in Germany, introduced RAPEX as an official warning system for non food consumer goods in the European Union. It is an abbreviation for "fast information exchange".

The organization will monitor non food consumer products and conduct weekly spot checks of non food consumer goods (including textiles and clothing) circulated on the market. Once the illegal chemicals are developed, information on the dangerous products will be reported on the official website.

The media in European countries will often reprint this kind of information to remind consumers and businesses. Once a product is found to be "roll call" on this website, the product will probably be banned from sale or even recall.

Therefore, Huang Haibin reminded enterprises that under the strict supervision system of the EU market, enterprises should make sufficient product testing in advance.

After certification, we must ensure the stability of quality.

At present, some enterprises fail to pass the sampling inspection after passing the certification of ecological textiles.

For this problem, Shanghai Tianxiang Quality Technology Service Co., Ltd., manager of eco product certification, Lin Li, said that accreditation is only for enterprises to take samples from their products for inspection, but if enterprises fail to control raw material ecological safety from the source, fail to fundamentally pay attention to product quality, improve production level, and lack effective supervision, products may still fail to pass the third party laboratory test or market sampling inspection, so that the stability of product ecological quality can not be guaranteed.

At the same time, Lin Li also suggested that in fact, the key to control the ecological safety of products lies in dyeing and finishing enterprises upstream of clothing.

Because clothing enterprises generally do not produce toxic and harmful substances in the process of production and processing, therefore, ecological textiles should start from fabrics and dyeing enterprises and share the pressure of downstream enterprises.

Lin said that the upstream enterprises of clothing are also actively investing in the detection of ecological textiles, and some enterprises have already obtained certification.