Textile Enterprises Pay Close Attention To The New Regulations Of Children'S Clothing In Europe And America

In recent years, in order to safeguard their own interests, European and American countries have targeted children clothing Different safety specifications and guidelines have been formulated for the main potential safety hazards of. For example, the United States has put forward specific requirements for the rope belt on children's clothing in the Safety Specification for the Rope Belt on Children's Shirts ASTM F1816-97 (2004) and the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Council of the United States) Guide for the Tight Belt on Children's Shirts; EU EN14682 standard The general requirements for straps or ropes on clothing for children under 14 years of age have also been clearly specified.

Recently, China's domestic children's clothing has been frequently recalled by Europe, America and other countries on the grounds that pulling rope may cause children's neck to be strangled. It is urgent to carefully analyze the reasons for the recall and propose corresponding countermeasures. The reason:

The need of foreign countries to protect domestic enterprises. Since the outbreak of the financial crisis, Europe, the United States and other countries, due to their own poor economic conditions, in order to protect the economic interests of their textile and clothing enterprises, have constantly restricted China's textile and clothing imports with different forms of trade protection measures. Recalls, as a form of technical barriers, are increasingly used.

Product design problems of foreign customers. Due to the defects in the design of foreign customers' products, and most Chinese manufacturers adopt OEM manufacturing, they simply believe that only the products produced according to the customer's requirements can be used, and they lack the necessary and sufficient identification ability to determine whether the product design conforms to foreign technical regulations. In addition, when signing contracts with foreign customers, most enterprises do not pay attention to making clear agreements on the conformity of product design and its responsibility attribution, resulting in losses.

Lack of awareness of hardship in domestic production enterprises. Quite a number of domestic textile production enterprise managers and operators have low knowledge level, lack of sufficient knowledge expansion training, and in many cases can not make a reasonable judgment on the products produced. In particular, the outbreak of the global financial crisis has led some manufacturing enterprises into the dilemma of no single thing to do. Once there is an order, they will not evaluate it, that is, they will blindly organize and arrange production, which leads to products that do not meet the strict requirements of the destination country.

Therefore, it is suggested to strengthen the check from the following aspects:

　　 manufacturing enterprise : First of all, we should strengthen the awareness of hardship, improve the ability to identify product risks, strengthen the study and research of foreign technical regulations, produce in strict accordance with the technical regulations and standards of the importing country, and earnestly implement the training for employees; When signing foreign trade contracts with customers, attention should be paid to avoiding risks, not accepting defective designs, strengthening the safety project review of product design, and enhancing the self inspection and self-control ability of enterprises.

Inspection and quarantine institutions: they should strengthen the collection and study of foreign technical regulations, and publicize them to enterprises in a timely manner. Especially for some children's clothing manufacturers newly transferred to the legal inspection directory, they should actively do a good job in the early stage of research and publicity, help and remind enterprises to improve their risk awareness and master foreign technical trade measures; At the same time, it is also necessary to strictly supervise the operation of the enterprise's quality management system, control design and production in strict accordance with the system requirements, ensure product quality and implement training, and require enterprises to fully realize that enterprises are the first person responsible for product quality. In addition, the inspection and quarantine institutions should also strengthen the laboratory testing capacity to ensure that the inspection is carried out in strict accordance with relevant national standards.

Industry associations: they should give full play to their role as a navigator in production enterprises, actively publicize the significance of "recall", "anti-dumping", "special protection" and other measures and the impact on China's exports; Actively resolve the adverse impact of trade protection on enterprises through legal, economic or other means; Actively pay attention to the development trend of industry exports, exchange information and coordinate exports.

As the production of children's clothing almost involves the whole industry of textile production in China, supervision and design specifications are no longer a problem that can be solved by a single or several government departments. It requires enterprises to improve their sense of responsibility; The quality supervision, inspection and quarantine department is required to implement supervision; It also requires other government departments and social institutions to jointly improve their management ability in different links, so as to ensure the overall improvement of the export quality of children's clothing in China and prevent the frequent occurrence of recalls.