Technical Textiles QCO List: Every Indian Order, Product, IS Standard and Date

The technical textiles QCO list in India stands at 68 products under the eight Ministry of Textiles orders for agro, geo, medical, protective, rope and industrial textiles, as read from the Gazette of India on 3 October 2026. Each product must conform to the Indian Standard named against it and carry the BIS Standard Mark under a licence from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), whether it is made in India or imported. Goods made for export are outside every order. Six more orders, issued by the chemicals ministry, cover woven polypropylene and HDPE sacks; three of those apply from 6 October 2026.

The orders and their amendments are spread over more than 40 Gazette notifications from two ministries. This page puts them in one place: every order, every product, the Indian Standard behind it, the date it started, and the notice that changed it. Each row links to the Gazette page it was read from.

Every technical textiles QCO in force, in one table

Two of the titles mislead. Both orders titled “2022” were notified in April 2023. “No separate date” means the order gives micro and small firms no later start, so they were bound from the same day as everyone else. BIS’s list of products under compulsory certification (last updated 25 September 2026) carries all eight orders, with no rescission.

Which woven sacks and jute bags need the BIS mark?

Woven polypropylene and HDPE sacks are packaging textiles, and each of their orders has a title that begins “Textiles”. They come from the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals), not the Ministry of Textiles. Jute bags have their own Ministry of Textiles order.

The two cement-sack orders and the mail-sack order were postponed together six times. Each was to start 180 days after publication; the start then moved to 6 September 2024 (4 June 2024), 6 December 2024 (13 September 2024), 6 June 2025 (6 December 2024), 6 September 2025 (11 June 2025), 6 January 2026 (4 September 2025) and 6 October 2026 (S.O. 51(E), 52(E) and 53(E) of 5 January 2026). A seventh postponement, in the Gazette of 6 October 2026 (S.O. 5478(E), 5479(E) and 5480(E)), split them: the cement-sack order for IS 11652 and the mail-sack order now apply from 6 January 2027, and the block-bottom valve sack order from 6 November 2026. The fertiliser-sack order was moved once, to 6 September 2024; the polymer-sack order was never amended. A sack maker should check the Gazette for a later notice before relying on any of these dates.

Which IS standard applies to each agro-textile product?

The Agro Textiles (Quality Control) Order, 2023 was notified on 27 September 2023 to apply from 1 April 2024. S.O. 1579(E) of 28 March 2024 moved the whole order to 1 July 2024. It gives small firms no later date. BIS’s standards portal shows no later edition of any of these 20 standards as at 3 October 2026.

When did the medical textiles order start for each product?

The order now in force is the Medical Textiles (Quality Control) Order, 2024, which replaced the 2023 order on 23 October 2024. Its six products sit in two schedules with different start dates.

How the Schedule A dates got there:

• S.O. 4247(E) of 27 September 2023, the Medical Textiles (Quality Control) Order, 2023: Schedule A from 1 April 2024, or 1 October 2024 for small and micro firms; Schedule B from 1 April 2024.
• S.O. 830(E) of 22 February 2024: Schedule A from 1 October 2024 for everyone.
• S.O. 4634(E) of 23 October 2024: the 2024 order replaces the 2023 one and sets Schedule A at 1 January 2025. It names BIS and the Textiles Committee of the Ministry of Textiles as the certifying and enforcing authorities.
• S.O. 04(E) of 1 January 2025: Schedule A stays at 1 January 2025 for large and medium firms and moves to 1 April 2025 for small and micro firms. Certified makers, and makers who had applied, could declare stock made or imported before the start without the mark and sell it until 30 June 2025.
• S.O. 3526(E) of 30 July 2025: that declared-stock window runs to 31 December 2025.

Schedule A products made by self-help groups, as the order defines them, are outside it.

Which rope standards does the ropes order name?

The Ropes and Cordages (Quality Control) Order, 2024 applies from 1 April 2025, and from 1 July 2025 for small and micro firms’ domestic production. The last column is BIS’s own record of each standard’s relation to an international standard.

The June 2026 amendment. S.O. 2871(E), in the Gazette of 5 June 2026, takes item 7 ropes made from recycled plastic waste out of the order for twelve months from that publication. It covers item 7 only: polyester, polyamide or polyethylene ropes made from recycled material get no exemption.

The new IS 5175. BIS lists IS 5175:2026 as superseding the 2022 edition. Its title names the split film, monofilament and multifilament grades but no longer the high-tenacity PP3 grade that item 7 of the order describes. A maker of PP3 rope should ask BIS which standard its licence will name.

Braided nylon ropes for mountaineering are not in this order. They sit in the commerce ministry’s Steel Wires or Strands, Nylon or Wire Ropes and Wire mesh (Quality Control) Order, 2024 (S.O. 2581(E) of 3 July 2024) under IS 6590:1972. BIS’s portal now lists IS 6590:2023, ropes for mountaineering.

Indutech and the 2024 geotextiles order: one product each

The Indutech order gives small and micro firms 1 July 2025 for domestic production; the 2024 geotextiles order gives no such date. IS 17880 is a rope-gabion standard, not a filter-fabric one. Our geotextile QCO guide covers both geotextile orders, the merger of the drainage and separation standards into IS 16362:2024, and a worked filter-fabric selection.

The 2023 orders: geotextiles and protective textiles

The Geo Textiles (Quality Control) Order, 2022 was to start 180 days after publication. S.O. 2331(E) of 24 May 2023 fixed 7 October 2023, and S.O. 4386(E) of 10 October 2023 moved it to 1 January 2024.

The Protective Textiles (Quality Control) Order, 2022 applies from 7 October 2023 (S.O. 2332(E) of 24 May 2023). S.O. 3896(E), dated 11 September 2024 and published on 12 September, struck out item 2.

Item 2 did not leave compulsory certification. The same day, S.O. 3916(E) made upholstered composites for non-domestic furniture an order of its own, in force on publication. It also reaches upholstered composites or fabric traded as raw material or in rolls, or used to assemble non-domestic furniture. Furniture assemblers using upholstered fabric were exempt until 31 March 2025. A maker of furniture for homes gives a self-declaration under IS 15768:2008 that its products are for domestic use. BIS has since published IS 15768:2025, a first revision titled for fire-resistant upholstery fabrics in public places. The protective clothing certification guide on this site sets the protective items against the EU route, test by test.

Which fibre and yarn QCOs were rescinded?

None of the fibre and yarn orders below applies any more. Each rescission took effect at once and leaves anything done or omitted before it as it was. The polyester and feedstock orders came from the chemicals ministry’s Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals (DCPC); only the viscose order was the Ministry of Textiles’.

The chemicals ministry’s Gazette of 12 November 2025 also rescinded the orders for polyethylene and polypropylene materials for moulding and extrusion (S.O. 5136(E) and S.O. 5138(E)), the polymers behind HDPE and PP woven sacks and polypropylene and polyethylene ropes. A buyer can still ask for any of these Indian Standards by contract; the law no longer requires the mark.

What every order requires

• The mark and the licence. Each listed product must conform to its Indian Standard and carry the Standard Mark under a BIS licence granted under Scheme-I of Schedule-II to the BIS (Conformity Assessment) Regulations, 2018.
• Who enforces. BIS certifies and enforces every order; the medical order adds the Textiles Committee.
• Exports. Goods meant for export are outside every order on this page.
• New editions. Every order on this page except the agro-textile order and the 2020 sack order says the latest version of each Indian Standard applies from the date BIS publishes it. BIS sets a last date for licensees to move to a new edition or amendment, so ask a supplier which edition its licence covers.
• Small firms. Of the textile orders in the tables above, only the medical (Schedule A), ropes and Indutech orders give micro and small firms a later date.
• Penalties. Breaches are punishable under the BIS Act, 2016.

What does a factory outside India need?

A factory in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, Turkey or anywhere else outside India applies under BIS’s Foreign Manufacturers Certification Scheme. BIS’s pages set out what it takes:

• Who can apply: the factory must make the product on its own premises, be equipped to test it to the Indian Standard there, with competent testing staff, and accept BIS’s scheme of testing and inspection and its marking fee. Each product or standard, and each factory, needs its own application.
• An Authorised Indian Representative, resident in India and nominated on Form VI of Scheme-I, answers for the licence. The representative’s name is endorsed on the licence.
• The grant: BIS visits the factory to verify its manufacturing and testing set-up and draws samples for independent testing. After the grant the licensee furnishes a performance bank guarantee of USD 10,000 from a bank with an RBI-approved branch in India. The licence runs for one to two years at first and can be renewed for up to five. BIS gives about six months from recording a complete application as the usual time to grant.

To check a supplier, look up the Indian Standard on BIS’s standards portal, which lists the licences granted under it.

How this page is kept

Last verified: 3 October 2026. Built from the orders, amendments and rescissions in the Gazette of India, each linked where it is used; BIS’s copies of the Gazette pages for the 2020 sack order, the jute-bag order and the commerce ministry’s rope order; BIS’s list of products under compulsory certification (updated 25 September 2026); BIS’s standards portal for current editions; and BIS’s Foreign Manufacturers Certification Scheme pages. This page describes what the orders say; it is not legal advice for a particular product or shipment. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.