{"total":146,"items":[{"summary":"A treated article may not be placed on the market unless every active substance in the biocidal products it was treated with, or incorporates, is on the list drawn up under Article 9(2) or in Annex I for the relevant product-type and use, and any conditions or restrictions specified there are met. This is a gate on placing on the market, not a labelling duty: an antimicrobial finish whose active substance is not approved for that product-type bars the article from the market whatever the label says.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2013-09-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Article 58(1) limits the whole Article to treated articles that are NOT themselves biocidal products, and excludes articles whose only treatment was fumigation or disinfection of premises or containers with no expected residue. A finished textile carrying an antimicrobial or odour-control treatment sits inside that scope; the biocidal product used to apply it does not.","instrument":{"name":"Biocidal Products Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 528/2012","short_name":"EU BPR (treated articles)","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 528/2012","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/biocidal-products-regulation-regulation-eu-no-528-2012/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012R0528"}},{"summary":"Where the manufacturer of a treated article makes a claim about its biocidal properties, or where the conditions attached to approval of the active substance require it, the person responsible for placing the article on the market must ensure the label carries: a statement that the article incorporates biocidal products; the biocidal property claimed, where substantiated; the name of every active substance in those products; the name of any nanomaterial in them followed by the word \"nano\" in brackets; and any relevant instructions for use, including precautions arising from the treatment.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2013-09-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The trigger is the CLAIM or the approval conditions, not the treatment. A textile treated with an approved active substance and sold with no biocidal claim may carry no Article 58(3) label at all — which is why \"does it say anything about odour or freshness on the swing ticket\" is the question that decides this duty. The final subparagraph disapplies it where sector-specific legislation already imposes at least equivalent labelling for the same active substances.","instrument":{"name":"Biocidal Products Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 528/2012","short_name":"EU BPR (treated articles)","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 528/2012","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/biocidal-products-regulation-regulation-eu-no-528-2012/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012R0528"}},{"summary":"Regardless of whether the Article 58(3) labelling duty is triggered, the person responsible for placing a treated article on the market must label it with any relevant instructions for use, including precautions, where that is necessary to protect humans, animals or the environment.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2013-09-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the duty that survives a no-claim product. It is written as a standalone obligation rather than folded into the one above precisely because paragraph 4 is expressed as operating notwithstanding paragraph 3.","instrument":{"name":"Biocidal Products Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 528/2012","short_name":"EU BPR (treated articles)","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 528/2012","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/biocidal-products-regulation-regulation-eu-no-528-2012/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012R0528"}},{"summary":"A supplier of a treated article must, on request from a consumer, provide information on the biocidal treatment of that article within 45 days and free of charge.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2013-09-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The duty falls on the supplier rather than the manufacturer, and it is unconditional — it does not depend on a claim having been made or on the Article 58(3) label being required. A brand answering a customer question about a finish is discharging this, whether or not it knows the Article exists.","instrument":{"name":"Biocidal Products Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 528/2012","short_name":"EU BPR (treated articles)","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 528/2012","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/biocidal-products-regulation-regulation-eu-no-528-2012/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012R0528"}},{"summary":"The labelling must be clearly visible, easily legible and appropriately durable. Where the size or function of the treated article requires it, the labelling must instead be printed on the packaging, the instructions for use or the warranty, in the official language or languages of the Member State where the article is placed on the market, unless that Member State provides otherwise.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2013-09-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The language duty is per Member State of introduction, so a single EU-wide label satisfies it only where every destination is covered. The Article also allows a manufacturer of articles made to a specific order rather than as a series to agree another method of giving the customer the information — relevant to contract and technical textiles rather than to retail apparel.","instrument":{"name":"Biocidal Products Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 528/2012","short_name":"EU BPR (treated articles)","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 528/2012","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/biocidal-products-regulation-regulation-eu-no-528-2012/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012R0528"}},{"summary":"Protective clothing must meet the essential health and safety requirements, carry CE marking, and — for Category II and III — pass a conformity assessment involving a notified body.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["protective_clothing","apparel","gloves","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2018-04-21","compliance_deadline":"2018-04-21","penalties":"","notes":"Article 47, quoted: \"This Regulation shall apply from 21 April 2018\". The category decides the burden and it is the step mills most often get wrong: Category I is self-declared, Category III — protection against mortal danger — requires a notified body for both the type examination and ongoing production surveillance. High-visibility clothing, cut protection and flame-retardant workwear are not Category I.","instrument":{"name":"Personal protective equipment","short_name":"PPE Regulation","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2016/425","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/ppe-regulation-regulation-eu-2016-425/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/425/oj"}},{"summary":"Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 1249:2014 Children’s nightwear and limited daywear having reduced fire hazard is declared to be a safety standard for children’s nightwear and limited daywear to which that standard applies, other than second-hand articles.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["childrenswear","apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2020-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Section 5 fixes the edition of AS/NZS 1249 as the one in force on 15 September 2017. Section 6, which until 1 January 2020 allowed articles to meet either the 2007 Regulations or the Australian Standard, provided for its own repeal on that date and Endnote 4 of the compilation records it as repealed. The instrument is made under sections 104 and 105 of the Australian Consumer Law. The instrument sets the content of the standard. What follows from supplying goods that do not meet it sits in the Australian Consumer Law, which is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and is not part of this instrument.","instrument":{"name":"Consumer Goods (Children’s Nightwear and Limited Daywear and Paper Patterns for Children’s Nightwear) Safety Standard 2017","short_name":"Australia Children’s Nightwear Safety Standard","citation":"F2017L00452","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/consumer-goods-childrens-nightwear-and-limited-daywear-and-paper-patterns-for-childrens-nightwear-safety-standard-2017/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2017L00452/latest/text"}},{"summary":"Consumer products not covered by sector-specific safety law must still be safe, carry traceability information, and have a responsible economic operator established in the Union.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","home_textiles","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2024-12-13","compliance_deadline":"2024-12-13","penalties":"","notes":"Article 52, quoted: \"It shall apply from 13 December 2024\". The requirement that catches distance sellers is the responsible person inside the Union: a manufacturer outside the EU selling direct to consumers cannot place goods on the market without one, and ordinary apparel falls here because no sector-specific safety regulation covers it.","instrument":{"name":"General product safety","short_name":"GPSR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2023/988","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/gpsr-regulation-eu-2023-988/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/988/oj"}},{"summary":"After 1 January 2025 no person may sell or offer for sale in New York apparel containing PFAS as intentionally added chemicals.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel"],"market_scope":["US-NY"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"\"Apparel\" excludes professional uniforms worn to protect the wearer from health or environmental hazards, including personal protective equipment, and outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions. A seller relying on a manufacturer's certificate of compliance has a safe harbor, and DEC states such certificates are to be made available to it on request.","instrument":{"name":"New York — Apparel containing PFAS, Environmental Conservation Law § 37-0121","short_name":"New York PFAS in apparel law","citation":"N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 37-0121","jurisdiction":"US-NY","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/new-york-pfas-apparel-law-ecl-37-0121/","official_url":"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ENV/37-0121"}},{"summary":"From 1 January 2025 no person may manufacture, distribute, sell or offer for sale in California any new, not previously used, textile article containing regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","clothing_accessories","leather"],"market_scope":["US-CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The verbs reach manufacture, distribution, sale AND offering for sale, so a listing is inside it before a transaction happens. It applies to NEW articles only — not previously used — which leaves resale of existing stock outside. Two definitions do the work here. \"Regulated PFAS\" means either PFAS intentionally added with a functional or technical effect, or presence at or above a total organic fluorine threshold of 100 ppm from 1 January 2025 and 50 ppm from 1 January 2027. \"Textile\" expressly includes leather, cotton, silk, jute, hemp, wool, viscose, nylon and polyester, and \"textile articles\" covers apparel, accessories, handbags, backpacks, draperies, shower curtains, furnishings, upholstery, bedding, towels, napkins and tablecloths.","instrument":{"name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act — California Health and Safety Code §§ 108970-108971","short_name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act","citation":"California Health and Safety Code, added by AB 1817 (2022)","jurisdiction":"US-CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/safer-clothes-and-textiles-act-california-health-and-safety-code-added-by-ab-1817-2022/","official_url":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&sectionNum=108971"}},{"summary":"Outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions is exempt from the prohibition until 1 January 2028. But from 1 January 2025 such apparel may not be distributed, sold or offered for sale in California unless accompanied by a legible and easily discernible disclosure stating \"Made with PFAS chemicals\", including for online listings.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US-CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is a deferral with a condition attached, not a clean exemption — and the condition starts on the SAME date the general ban does. The statute prescribes the wording. It also names online listings expressly, so a compliant physical hangtag with a silent product page does not discharge it. Note the verbs here omit \"manufacture\", unlike (a)(1).","instrument":{"name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act — California Health and Safety Code §§ 108970-108971","short_name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act","citation":"California Health and Safety Code, added by AB 1817 (2022)","jurisdiction":"US-CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/safer-clothes-and-textiles-act-california-health-and-safety-code-added-by-ab-1817-2022/","official_url":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&sectionNum=108971"}},{"summary":"A manufacturer must use the least toxic alternative, including alternative design, when removing regulated PFAS from textile articles to comply with this chapter.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","leather"],"market_scope":["US-CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"A substitution duty, and it is easy to miss because it constrains HOW compliance is reached rather than what the product must contain. Removing PFAS by swapping in a different problem chemistry is not compliance with this subdivision. It expressly contemplates alternative DESIGN, not only alternative chemistry.","instrument":{"name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act — California Health and Safety Code §§ 108970-108971","short_name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act","citation":"California Health and Safety Code, added by AB 1817 (2022)","jurisdiction":"US-CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/safer-clothes-and-textiles-act-california-health-and-safety-code-added-by-ab-1817-2022/","official_url":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&sectionNum=108971"}},{"summary":"A manufacturer of a textile article must provide persons who offer the product for sale or distribution in California with a certificate of compliance stating that the article complies with this chapter and does not contain any regulated PFAS.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","leather"],"market_scope":["US-CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"A document duty running from the manufacturer to everyone downstream who offers the goods, which makes it the practical mechanism a retailer uses to discharge its own exposure. Because the threshold in the definition drops to 50 ppm on 1 January 2027, a certificate issued against the 100 ppm figure does not carry forward — the statement is that the article complies with the chapter, and the chapter moves.","instrument":{"name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act — California Health and Safety Code §§ 108970-108971","short_name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act","citation":"California Health and Safety Code, added by AB 1817 (2022)","jurisdiction":"US-CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/safer-clothes-and-textiles-act-california-health-and-safety-code-added-by-ab-1817-2022/","official_url":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&sectionNum=108971"}},{"summary":"Regulated goods must comply with either the requirements in section 11, which apply the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 1957:1998 Textiles—Care labelling as varied by that section, or the requirements in section 12, which apply Clause 4 of ISO 3758:2012 Textiles—Care labelling code using symbols. The two routes are alternatives and a compliant article need satisfy only one.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","home_textiles","textiles","mattresses","upholstery","leather","fur"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-03-05","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Section 6 defines regulated goods as any clothing, household textiles, apparel including wedding dresses, christening gowns and promotional, sample and flawed articles, furnishings, upholstered furniture, bedding including sleeping bags, mattresses, bed bases, piece goods and yarns made from textiles, plastics, plastic coated fabrics, suede, skins, hides, grain leathers or furs. Section 7 lists ten classes of exempt goods, among them all second-hand goods, all footwear other than hosiery and the textile materials used in making footwear, all jute products, and all bags and cases. The date given here is computed rather than stated: section 2 commences the instrument on 5 September 2023, section 5 defines the first transitional period as six months from commencement and the second as twelve months from the day after the first ends, so section 10 governs from 5 March 2025. Sections 8 and 9, which allowed the repealed 2010 notice as a third route during those periods, each provide for their own repeal at the end of the period they govern. The instrument sets the content of the standard. What follows from supplying goods that do not meet it sits in the Australian Consumer Law, which is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and is not part of this instrument.","instrument":{"name":"Consumer Goods (Care Labelling) Information Standard 2023","short_name":"Australia Care Labelling Standard","citation":"F2023L01187","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/consumer-goods-care-labelling-information-standard-2023/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2023L01187/latest/text"}},{"summary":"Under the Australian/New Zealand Standard route, care instructions must take into account all elements of an article, including dyes, finishes, fibres, construction, design, zips, buttons, fasteners, padding, lace, beading, trims, decals, linings, interfacings and embroidery that form an integral part of it, and must give cleaning instructions together with maintenance instructions where these are needed so that following them does not damage the article. The wording of the label must be in English and clearly legible.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","home_textiles","textiles"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-03-05","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Where an article cannot be washed or drycleaned, the substituted Clause 2.1.3 at subsection (6) requires the permanent label to carry instructions in words that warn of this and adequately describe the care treatment. The new Clause 2.5 added by subsection (13) names classes of made-up goods exempt from carrying a permanent label, including hosiery, gloves, bibs, washable nappies, tea towels, place mats, shower curtains and small haberdashery, for which care instructions may instead be given on a removable ticket, an accompanying pamphlet or printed on the packaging. Section 11 varies the standard in eighteen subsections and the register entry records the ones that state duties rather than editorial omissions. The standard itself is not published by the Commonwealth and is sold by its publishers. The instrument sets the content of the standard. What follows from supplying goods that do not meet it sits in the Australian Consumer Law, which is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and is not part of this instrument.","instrument":{"name":"Consumer Goods (Care Labelling) Information Standard 2023","short_name":"Australia Care Labelling Standard","citation":"F2023L01187","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/consumer-goods-care-labelling-information-standard-2023/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2023L01187/latest/text"}},{"summary":"Under the International Standard route, regulated goods comply if they comply with Clause 4 of ISO 3758:2012 Textiles—Care labelling code using symbols, as that standard was in force at the time this instrument commenced.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","home_textiles","textiles"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-03-05","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The definition at section 5 fixes the edition as the one in force or existing when the instrument commenced, so a later revision of ISO 3758 is not picked up automatically. The note to section 12 points to Annex C of that standard for examples of additional wording that can accompany the symbols. The instrument sets the content of the standard. What follows from supplying goods that do not meet it sits in the Australian Consumer Law, which is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and is not part of this instrument.","instrument":{"name":"Consumer Goods (Care Labelling) Information Standard 2023","short_name":"Australia Care Labelling Standard","citation":"F2023L01187","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/consumer-goods-care-labelling-information-standard-2023/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2023L01187/latest/text"}},{"summary":"Relevant commodities and relevant products may not be placed or made available on the market, or exported, unless all three conditions are met: they are deforestation-free; they were produced in accordance with the relevant legislation of the country of production; and they are covered by a due diligence statement.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["leather","apparel","footwear","clothing_accessories"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-12-30","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Three cumulative conditions, and the third is a document rather than a property of the goods — a genuinely deforestation-free hide still fails Article 3 without a due diligence statement. The prohibition reaches EXPORT as well as placing on the market, so an EU tannery shipping out is inside it. Textiles enter through cattle: leather is a relevant product derived from a relevant commodity. Nothing in this Regulation says \"textile\", \"fabric\" or \"fibre\", so it will not be found by searching for the material.","instrument":{"name":"EUDR — Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/3234","short_name":"EUDR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/3234","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/eudr-regulation-eu-2023-1115-as-amended-by-regulation-eu-2024-3234/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R1115"}},{"summary":"Operators must exercise due diligence in accordance with Article 8 before placing relevant products on the market or exporting them, in order to prove compliance with Article 3, and may not place them on the market or export them without prior submission of a due diligence statement.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["leather","apparel","footwear","clothing_accessories"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-12-30","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The statement is submitted BEFORE the goods move, not compiled afterwards, which makes this a gating step in the shipping process rather than a record-keeping duty. Due diligence must prove compliance, so the burden sits with the operator rather than with an enforcement authority.","instrument":{"name":"EUDR — Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/3234","short_name":"EUDR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/3234","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/eudr-regulation-eu-2023-1115-as-amended-by-regulation-eu-2024-3234/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R1115"}},{"summary":"Articles 3 to 13, 16 to 24, and 26, 31 and 32 apply from 30 December 2025. For operators that were established as micro-undertakings or small undertakings as at 31 December 2020 under Article 3(1) or (2) of Directive 2013/34/EU, those Articles apply from 30 June 2026, except as regards products covered in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 995/2010.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["leather","apparel","footwear","clothing_accessories"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2025-12-30","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The deferral is keyed to what the operator WAS on 31 December 2020, not to what it is today — a business that has since grown past the small-undertaking thresholds still takes the June 2026 date, and one that has since shrunk does not. Anyone reading the unamended Regulation gets dates twelve months early.","instrument":{"name":"EUDR — Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/3234","short_name":"EUDR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/3234","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/eudr-regulation-eu-2023-1115-as-amended-by-regulation-eu-2024-3234/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R1115"}},{"summary":"From 1 January 2026 the manufacture, import, export and placing on the market, paid or free, of clothing textiles, footwear, and waterproofing agents for clothing textiles and footwear intended for consumers that contain PFAS is prohibited, except clothing and footwear designed for the protection and safety of persons, in particular for national defence or civil security missions.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","footwear","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["FR"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The thresholds below which the ban does not apply are set by decree, art. D525-4: 25 ppb for any single PFAS measured by targeted analysis, excluding polymers; 250 ppb for the sum of PFAS, where relevant after degradation of precursors, excluding polymers; and 50 ppm for PFAS including polymers. Above 50 mg/kg total fluorine, the operator must demonstrate on request whether the fluorine comes from PFAS. Art. D525-2 exempts personal protective equipment under Regulation (EU) 2016/425, protective and combat equipment for the armed forces and for internal and civil security, re-proofing agents for that equipment, and clothing and footwear with at least 20% recycled material from post-consumer waste, where PFAS is tolerated only in proportion to the recycled fraction. Products made before 1 January 2026 may be placed on the market or exported for at most twelve months (art. 2 of the law). The text defines neither \"textile d'habillement\" nor whether the limits apply per article or per material. Because export is named, the ban reaches French operators shipping out of France as well as goods entering it.","instrument":{"name":"Law No. 2025-188 of 27 February 2025 protecting the population from the risks of PFAS (Environment Code art. L524-1) and Decree No. 2025-1376","short_name":"France PFAS law","citation":"Loi n° 2025-188 du 27 février 2025","jurisdiction":"FR","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/france-pfas-law-2025-188/","official_url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT000006074220/LEGISCTA000051266188/"}},{"summary":"From 1 January 2026 a textile article containing intentionally added PFAS, and upholstered furniture containing intentionally added PFAS, may not be sold, offered for sale or distributed for sale in Maine. Outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions and textiles in watercraft, aircraft and motor vehicles are excluded from the textile-article ban.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","clothing_accessories","home_textiles","upholstery"],"market_scope":["US-ME"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"\"Textile article\" covers apparel, accessories, handbags, backpacks, draperies, shower curtains, furnishings, upholstery, bedding, towels, napkins and tablecloths, and excludes carpets, fabric treatments, laboratory textiles, architectural fabric and industrial filters. Under subsection 8 the department may require a manufacturer, within 30 days, to provide a certificate attesting that the product contains no intentionally added PFAS. The department's FAQ treats personal protective equipment as outside \"textile article\"; that is agency interpretation, not statute.","instrument":{"name":"Maine — Products containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, 38 M.R.S.A. § 1614","short_name":"Maine PFAS in products law","citation":"38 M.R.S.A. § 1614","jurisdiction":"US-ME","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/maine-pfas-products-law-38-mrsa-1614/","official_url":"https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/38/title38sec1614.html"}},{"summary":"From 1 July 2026 businesses may not import or sell clothing or footwear for private use in which at least one component article contains total fluorine of 50 mg F/kg or more, nor waterproofing agents for such clothing or footwear at or above the same level. Private persons may not import them either.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","footwear","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["DK"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-07-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The measure is total fluorine, not a list of PFAS, and it is applied to each component article of the garment. § 6(3) allows sale from existing business stock until 1 January 2027. § 3(3) exempts reuse and recycling of clothing and footwear and certain personal protective equipment, and § 2 leaves out PFAS already regulated under REACH or the POPs Regulation. The order provides that fluorine shown to come from a substance that is not PFAS does not count, and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency may ask for documentation of that.","instrument":{"name":"Executive Order No. 464 of 2 May 2025 banning the import and sale to consumers of clothing, footwear and certain waterproofing agents containing PFAS","short_name":"Denmark PFAS clothing ban","citation":"BEK nr 464 af 02/05/2025","jurisdiction":"DK","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/denmark-pfas-clothing-ban-bek-464-2025/","official_url":"https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/464"}},{"summary":"All producers of covered products must join the PRO approved by the department by 1 July 2026.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"producer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles","home_textiles","clothing_accessories"],"market_scope":["US-CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-07-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the date a producer plans against, and it is separate from the PRO's own 1 January 2026 application deadline. A producer waiting to see whether a PRO is approved before joining has six months between the two.","instrument":{"name":"Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 — California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024)","short_name":"Responsible Textile Recovery Act","citation":"California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024)","jurisdiction":"US-CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/responsible-textile-recovery-act-of-2024-california-public-resources-code-added-by-sb-707-2024/","official_url":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB707"}},{"summary":"From 19 July 2026 the destruction of unsold consumer products listed in Annex VII is prohibited. The prohibition does not apply to micro and small enterprises, and reaches medium-sized enterprises only from 19 July 2030. Annex VII lists apparel and clothing accessories by commodity code — 4203, 61, 62, 6504 and 6505 — and footwear under 6401 to 6405.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","clothing_accessories","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-07-19","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Annex VII is a commodity-code list and the codes decide, not the word \"textiles\". Home textiles — bed linen, curtains, towels, CN 63 — are NOT listed, so the prohibition does not reach them. The enterprise-size staging is the other half: for a medium-sized enterprise this is a 2030 duty, and for a micro or small one it is not a duty at all.","instrument":{"name":"ESPR — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","short_name":"ESPR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/espr-regulation-eu-2024-1781/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R1781"}},{"summary":"An economic operator not caught by the prohibition must not destroy unsold consumer products supplied to it for the purpose of circumventing that prohibition.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","clothing_accessories","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-07-19","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is what stops the exemptions being used as a disposal route: a small enterprise is outside the prohibition but inside this, so stock cannot be moved down the size ladder to be destroyed lawfully. The test is purpose, which makes it a question about arrangements rather than about who holds the goods.","instrument":{"name":"ESPR — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","short_name":"ESPR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/espr-regulation-eu-2024-1781/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R1781"}},{"summary":"Displaying a sustainability label that is not based on a certification scheme, or not established by public authorities, is prohibited.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-09-27","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Reaches self-declared marks and own-brand sustainability badges, which are neither certification schemes nor established by public authorities. Annex I to Directive 2005/29/EC is the list of practices considered unfair in ALL circumstances, so this needs no proof of consumer detriment and no case-by-case assessment.","instrument":{"name":"Empowering Consumers Directive — Directive (EU) 2024/825","short_name":"Empowering Consumers Directive","citation":"Directive (EU) 2024/825","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/empowering-consumers-directive-directive-eu-2024-825/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0825"}},{"summary":"Making a generic environmental claim for which the trader cannot demonstrate recognised excellent environmental performance relevant to the claim is prohibited.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-09-27","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"A claim stops being generic when its specification is given in clear and prominent terms ON THE SAME MEDIUM. The recitals give the worked contrast: \"climate-friendly packaging\" is generic, while \"100 % of energy used to produce this packaging comes from renewable sources\" is specific and outside this point. Recital examples of generic claims include eco-friendly, green, ecological, climate friendly, carbon friendly, biodegradable and biobased. Annex I to Directive 2005/29/EC is the list of practices considered unfair in ALL circumstances, so this needs no proof of consumer detriment and no case-by-case assessment.","instrument":{"name":"Empowering Consumers Directive — Directive (EU) 2024/825","short_name":"Empowering Consumers Directive","citation":"Directive (EU) 2024/825","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/empowering-consumers-directive-directive-eu-2024-825/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0825"}},{"summary":"Making an environmental claim about the entire product, or about the trader's entire business, when it concerns only a certain aspect of the product or a specific activity of the business, is prohibited.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-09-27","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the scope-widening prohibition, and it is the one a textile supply chain trips over most naturally: an organic-cotton face fabric does not license a claim about the garment, and a certified dyehouse does not license a claim about the business. The claim must be no wider than the thing it rests on. Annex I to Directive 2005/29/EC is the list of practices considered unfair in ALL circumstances, so this needs no proof of consumer detriment and no case-by-case assessment.","instrument":{"name":"Empowering Consumers Directive — Directive (EU) 2024/825","short_name":"Empowering Consumers Directive","citation":"Directive (EU) 2024/825","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/empowering-consumers-directive-directive-eu-2024-825/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0825"}},{"summary":"Claiming, based on the offsetting of greenhouse gas emissions, that a product has a neutral, reduced or positive impact on the environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, is prohibited.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-09-27","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The phrase \"carbon neutral\" appears NOWHERE in this Directive — zero occurrences. The point is written around the mechanism, not the wording: what is banned is a neutral, REDUCED or positive impact claim that rests on offsetting. So avoiding the popular phrase does not avoid the prohibition, and a reduction claim resting on measured abatement rather than offsets is not caught by it. Both errors follow from searching the text for the phrase instead of the mechanism. Annex I to Directive 2005/29/EC is the list of practices considered unfair in ALL circumstances, so this needs no proof of consumer detriment and no case-by-case assessment.","instrument":{"name":"Empowering Consumers Directive — Directive (EU) 2024/825","short_name":"Empowering Consumers Directive","citation":"Directive (EU) 2024/825","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/empowering-consumers-directive-directive-eu-2024-825/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0825"}},{"summary":"Presenting requirements imposed by law on all products within the relevant product category on the Union market as a distinctive feature of the trader's offer is prohibited.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-09-27","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Directly relevant to textiles, where compliance is routinely marketed as virtue: \"azo-free\", \"nickel-safe\", \"no restricted substances\" describe obedience to REACH Annex XVII, which binds every competitor equally. Presenting that as a distinctive feature of the offer is the prohibited act.","instrument":{"name":"Empowering Consumers Directive — Directive (EU) 2024/825","short_name":"Empowering Consumers Directive","citation":"Directive (EU) 2024/825","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/empowering-consumers-directive-directive-eu-2024-825/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0825"}},{"summary":"From 10 October 2026, textiles, leather, furs and hides in clothing and related accessories for the general public, footwear for the general public, and mixtures for the general public may not be placed on the market or used at or above 25 ppb for the sum of PFHxA and its salts, or 1,000 ppb for the sum of PFHxA-related substances, measured in homogeneous material.","confidence":"scheduled","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","clothing_accessories","footwear","leather","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2026-10-10","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The limit is per homogeneous material, so a garment is measured layer by layer and trim by trim, not as a whole. \"Mixtures for the general public\" brings consumer waterproofing sprays in on the same date. Paragraph 3 exempts personal protective equipment in risk category III under Regulation (EU) 2016/425 (points (a), (c) to (f), (h) and (l) of its Annex I), medical devices, in vitro diagnostic devices and construction textiles. Paragraph 7 exempts articles placed on the market before 10 October 2026. No test method is named; recital 7 says standard methods are still to be developed. The scope wording is \"for the general public\", so products supplied only to professionals fall outside it.","instrument":{"name":"Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/2462 restricting PFHxA, its salts and PFHxA-related substances (REACH Annex XVII, entry 79)","short_name":"EU PFHxA restriction","citation":"Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/2462","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/eu-pfhxa-restriction-regulation-2024-2462/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2462/oj"}},{"summary":"One year after DEC adopts its implementing regulations, and no later than 1 January 2027, apparel containing PFAS at or above a level DEC sets in regulation may not be sold or offered for sale in New York.","confidence":"indicative","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel"],"market_scope":["US-NY"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"2027-01-01","penalties":"","notes":"The statute sets no number. As at its pre-rulemaking meeting of 25 August 2025, DEC was considering 50 ppm total organic fluorine and 25 to 1,000 ppb for individual PFAS analytes, applied per component. No proposed rule had been found as at 2026-10-03, so how the \"no later than\" date operates without a set level is open; that is why this row is marked indicative.","instrument":{"name":"New York — Apparel containing PFAS, Environmental Conservation Law § 37-0121","short_name":"New York PFAS in apparel law","citation":"N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 37-0121","jurisdiction":"US-NY","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/new-york-pfas-apparel-law-ecl-37-0121/","official_url":"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ENV/37-0121"}},{"summary":"From 1 January 2027 the total organic fluorine threshold in the definition of \"regulated PFAS\" falls from 100 ppm to 50 ppm, so a textile article at or above 50 ppm total organic fluorine is inside the prohibition and the certificate-of-compliance duty.","confidence":"scheduled","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","clothing_accessories","leather"],"market_scope":["US-CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2027-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The step sits in the definition, not in the prohibition, which is why it is easy to miss: § 108971 is unchanged, but what it prohibits widens. A certificate of compliance issued against the 100 ppm figure states compliance with a chapter that has since moved.","instrument":{"name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act — California Health and Safety Code §§ 108970-108971","short_name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act","citation":"California Health and Safety Code, added by AB 1817 (2022)","jurisdiction":"US-CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/safer-clothes-and-textiles-act-california-health-and-safety-code-added-by-ab-1817-2022/","official_url":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&sectionNum=108971"}},{"summary":"From 1 January 2027 apparel and accessories containing intentionally added PFAS may not be manufactured, sold or distributed in Washington. Ecology presumes that total fluorine detected above 50 ppm indicates intentional addition.","confidence":"scheduled","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","clothing_accessories"],"market_scope":["US-WA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2027-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Products manufactured before 1 January 2027 are outside it. Excluded: firefighting personal protective equipment, PPE against biological or chemical hazards, disposables, footwear, gear, and extreme and extended-use apparel, which is subject to reporting instead (from 1 January 2026, first report due 31 January 2027). The same rule already restricts aftermarket textile and leather treatments (from 1 January 2025) and indoor textile furniture and furnishings (from 1 January 2026).","instrument":{"name":"Washington — Safer Products restrictions, WAC 173-337-110 (PFAS in apparel and accessories)","short_name":"Washington Safer Products PFAS rule","citation":"WAC 173-337-110","jurisdiction":"US-WA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/washington-pfas-apparel-rule-wac-173-337-110/","official_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=173-337-110"}},{"summary":"Prohibition on placing or making available on the Union market, and on exporting from it, products made with forced labour at any stage of production.","confidence":"scheduled","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["all_products","textiles","apparel","cotton"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2027-12-14","compliance_deadline":"2027-12-14","penalties":"Set by member state national law.","notes":"Applies to products of any origin, including those manufactured inside the Union. Enforcement runs through national authorities and a Union-level database of risk areas and products. There is no de minimis exemption by company size in the prohibition itself.","instrument":{"name":"Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market","short_name":"EU Forced Labour Regulation","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2024/3015","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/eu-forced-labour-regulation-regulation-eu-2024-3015/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/3015/oj"}},{"summary":"The Commission plans to adopt the ESPR delegated act setting ecodesign and digital product passport requirements for textiles in the fourth quarter of 2027. Under Article 4(4) its requirements apply no earlier than 18 months after it enters into force, except in duly justified cases.","confidence":"indicative","status":"pending_delegated_act","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"2027-Q4","penalties":"","notes":"The date is the planned ADOPTION of the act, not the date a passport is required. On the Commission's indicative plan, and with the 18-month floor in Article 4(4), a textile passport duty could not apply before 2029. The content is not settled: a Joint Research Centre study supports the impact assessment, and the Commission's page states that other actors, notably suppliers of products, may be subject to specific requirements to provide relevant information that is available to them. The digital product passport registry set up under Article 13 by 19 July 2026 stores at least the unique identifiers, not the passport data itself.","instrument":{"name":"ESPR — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","short_name":"ESPR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/espr-regulation-eu-2024-1781/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R1781"}},{"summary":"From 1 January 2028 textile articles containing intentionally added PFAS, including accessories, apparel, backpacks and handbags, may not be sold, offered for sale or distributed for sale in Colorado; outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions is banned from the same date.","confidence":"scheduled","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","clothing_accessories","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US-CO"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2028-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Excluded from \"textile articles\": outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions (treated separately), outdoor furnishings, and textiles used in medical, professional or industrial settings. Until 2028, outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions carries a \"Made with PFAS chemicals\" disclosure.","instrument":{"name":"Colorado — Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals Consumer Protection, SB 24-081","short_name":"Colorado PFAS consumer protection act","citation":"Colorado SB 24-081 (2024 Session Laws, Ch. 147)","jurisdiction":"US-CO","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/colorado-pfas-textiles-law-sb-24-081/","official_url":"https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/46185/download"}},{"summary":"On or after 1 January 2028, outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions containing PFAS as intentionally added chemicals or at or above the regulated level may not be sold or offered for sale in New York.","confidence":"scheduled","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel"],"market_scope":["US-NY"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2028-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The first research pass dated this 31 December 2027; the statute says on or after January first, two thousand twenty-eight.","instrument":{"name":"New York — Apparel containing PFAS, Environmental Conservation Law § 37-0121","short_name":"New York PFAS in apparel law","citation":"N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 37-0121","jurisdiction":"US-NY","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/new-york-pfas-apparel-law-ecl-37-0121/","official_url":"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ENV/37-0121"}},{"summary":"From 1 January 2028 the deferral for outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions ends, and the prohibition on regulated PFAS applies to that apparel as well.","confidence":"scheduled","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel"],"market_scope":["US-CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2028-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Until that date the same apparel carries the \"Made with PFAS chemicals\" disclosure required since 1 January 2025.","instrument":{"name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act — California Health and Safety Code §§ 108970-108971","short_name":"Safer Clothes and Textiles Act","citation":"California Health and Safety Code, added by AB 1817 (2022)","jurisdiction":"US-CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/safer-clothes-and-textiles-act-california-health-and-safety-code-added-by-ab-1817-2022/","official_url":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&sectionNum=108971"}},{"summary":"From 1 January 2029 outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions containing intentionally added PFAS may not be sold in Maine unless accompanied by a legible, easily discernible disclosure stating \"Made with PFAS chemicals\".","confidence":"scheduled","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel"],"market_scope":["US-ME"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2029-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"A disclosure duty, not a ban: the product stays saleable if labelled.","instrument":{"name":"Maine — Products containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, 38 M.R.S.A. § 1614","short_name":"Maine PFAS in products law","citation":"38 M.R.S.A. § 1614","jurisdiction":"US-ME","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/maine-pfas-products-law-38-mrsa-1614/","official_url":"https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/38/title38sec1614.html"}},{"summary":"From 1 January 2030 the same prohibition extends to every textile product containing PFAS, except textiles needed for essential uses, those contributing to national sovereignty for which no substitute exists, and technical textiles for industrial use.","confidence":"scheduled","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","home_textiles","apparel"],"market_scope":["FR"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2030-01-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Art. D525-3 lists the 2030 exemptions: technical textiles for industrial use; and, where no substitute exists, personal protective equipment, defence and CBRN equipment and medical textiles. The 20% post-consumer recycled-content rule carries over. Home textiles, which the 2026 ban does not reach, are inside this one.","instrument":{"name":"Law No. 2025-188 of 27 February 2025 protecting the population from the risks of PFAS (Environment Code art. L524-1) and Decree No. 2025-1376","short_name":"France PFAS law","citation":"Loi n° 2025-188 du 27 février 2025","jurisdiction":"FR","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/france-pfas-law-2025-188/","official_url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT000006074220/LEGISCTA000051266188/"}},{"summary":"On approval of the PRO plan, or from 1 July 2030, whichever is sooner, a producer is subject to penalties unless it is a participant of the PRO and all covered products are accounted for in the plan. An entity that does not meet the definition of a producer before 1 January 2030 but comes to meet it afterwards must become a participant of the PRO and comply within 90 days.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"producer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles","home_textiles","clothing_accessories"],"market_scope":["US-CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2030-07-01","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Two conditions, both required: membership AND coverage of every product in the plan. A producer inside the PRO whose full range is not accounted for in the approved plan is still exposed. The 90-day rule catches a business that grows past a threshold or starts selling into California later.","instrument":{"name":"Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 — California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024)","short_name":"Responsible Textile Recovery Act","citation":"California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024)","jurisdiction":"US-CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/responsible-textile-recovery-act-of-2024-california-public-resources-code-added-by-sb-707-2024/","official_url":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB707"}},{"summary":"From 19 July 2030 the prohibition on destroying unsold consumer products listed in Annex VII extends to medium-sized enterprises. Until that date it binds neither them nor micro and small enterprises, which the prohibition never reaches.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"not_yet_in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"medium_enterprise","product_scope":["apparel","clothing_accessories","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"2030-07-19","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Held as its own row rather than a sentence inside the 2026 duty, so that a medium-sized enterprise filtering the register finds it and so that the instrument reports partial rather than full legal force. A date four years out is the kind that gets repeated without its marker.","instrument":{"name":"ESPR — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","short_name":"ESPR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/espr-regulation-eu-2024-1781/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R1781"}},{"summary":"The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may designate household products by ministerial ordinance and set standards for them governing the content, elution or emission of substances designated as harmful, and household products are products mainly for ordinary consumer use other than those listed in the appended table.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["JP"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The appended table excludes food, additives, utensils, containers, toys and detergents under the Food Sanitation Act, and drugs, quasi-drugs, cosmetics, medical devices and regenerative medicine products under the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Act. Textile products are not excluded. The substances themselves, and the limits, are in the Cabinet Order and the ministerial ordinance rather than in the Act. The record carries the duty the article imposes. The designated goods, the labelling standards themselves and the exemptions live in the Cabinet Order, the enforcement regulation and the public notices made under the Act.","instrument":{"name":"Act on Control of Household Products Containing Harmful Substances (有害物質を含有する家庭用品の規制に関する法律)","short_name":"Japan Harmful Substances in Household Products","citation":"Act No. 112 of 1973 (昭和四十八年法律第百十二号)","jurisdiction":"JP","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/act-on-control-of-household-products-containing-harmful-substances-%e6%9c%89%e5%ae%b3%e7%89%a9%e8%b3%aa%e3%82%92%e5%90%ab%e6%9c%89%e3%81%99%e3%82%8b%e5%ae%b6%e5%ba%ad%e7%94%a8%e5%93%81%e3%81%ae/","official_url":"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/348AC0000000112"}},{"summary":"A person carrying on the business of manufacturing, importing or selling a household product for which a standard has been set must not sell it, give it away, or display it for sale or gift if it does not conform to that standard.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["JP"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"Imprisonment for up to one year or a fine of up to 300,000 yen (一年以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金).","notes":"The duty falls on the importer as well as the manufacturer and the seller, and reaches display for sale rather than sale alone. The record carries the duty the article imposes. The designated goods, the labelling standards themselves and the exemptions live in the Cabinet Order, the enforcement regulation and the public notices made under the Act.","instrument":{"name":"Act on Control of Household Products Containing Harmful Substances (有害物質を含有する家庭用品の規制に関する法律)","short_name":"Japan Harmful Substances in Household Products","citation":"Act No. 112 of 1973 (昭和四十八年法律第百十二号)","jurisdiction":"JP","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/act-on-control-of-household-products-containing-harmful-substances-%e6%9c%89%e5%ae%b3%e7%89%a9%e8%b3%aa%e3%82%92%e5%90%ab%e6%9c%89%e3%81%99%e3%82%8b%e5%ae%b6%e5%ba%ad%e7%94%a8%e5%93%81%e3%81%ae/","official_url":"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/348AC0000000112"}},{"summary":"Where a non-conforming household product has been sold or given away and the Minister or the prefectural governor considers there is a risk of harm to health, they may order the business to recall the product or take other measures necessary to prevent that harm; where serious harm has occurred and the product is suspected of containing a substance related to it, an emergency recall order may be made against the manufacturer or importer.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["JP"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"Imprisonment for up to one year or a fine of up to 300,000 yen (一年以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金).","notes":"The second power does not require the standard to have been breached — suspicion that the product contains a substance connected to serious harm is enough, and it runs against the manufacturer or importer rather than the seller. The record carries the duty the article imposes. The designated goods, the labelling standards themselves and the exemptions live in the Cabinet Order, the enforcement regulation and the public notices made under the Act.","instrument":{"name":"Act on Control of Household Products Containing Harmful Substances (有害物質を含有する家庭用品の規制に関する法律)","short_name":"Japan Harmful Substances in Household Products","citation":"Act No. 112 of 1973 (昭和四十八年法律第百十二号)","jurisdiction":"JP","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/act-on-control-of-household-products-containing-harmful-substances-%e6%9c%89%e5%ae%b3%e7%89%a9%e8%b3%aa%e3%82%92%e5%90%ab%e6%9c%89%e3%81%99%e3%82%8b%e5%ae%b6%e5%ba%ad%e7%94%a8%e5%93%81%e3%81%ae/","official_url":"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/348AC0000000112"}},{"summary":"A person must not, in trade or commerce, supply consumer goods of a particular kind where a safety standard for goods of that kind is in force and those goods do not comply with it. A pecuniary penalty may be imposed for a contravention.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel","home_textiles","childrenswear"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the section that makes the three recorded Consumer Goods standards enforceable rather than descriptive; all three are safety standards made under section 104 and all three are already in this register. The Australian Consumer Law is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010; section numbers here are the Schedule's own, which is how the Act cites them.","instrument":{"name":"Australian Consumer Law (Competition and Consumer Act 2010, Schedule 2)","short_name":"AU ACL","citation":"Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/australian-consumer-law-competition-and-consumer-act-2010-schedule-2/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00109/latest/text"}},{"summary":"A person must not, in trade or commerce, offer for supply consumer goods whose supply is prohibited by section 106(1). Offering for export is excluded from this subsection.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The export carve-out in this subsection is narrower than it looks, because section 106(5) separately prohibits the export itself without Ministerial approval. Reading 106(2) alone gives the wrong answer.","instrument":{"name":"Australian Consumer Law (Competition and Consumer Act 2010, Schedule 2)","short_name":"AU ACL","citation":"Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/australian-consumer-law-competition-and-consumer-act-2010-schedule-2/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00109/latest/text"}},{"summary":"A person must not, in or for the purposes of trade or commerce, manufacture, possess or have control of consumer goods whose supply is prohibited by section 106(1). In a proceeding under Part 5-2 it is a defence if the defendant proves that the manufacture, possession or control was not for the purpose of supplying the goods other than for export.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The prohibition reaches stock sitting in a warehouse, with no sale and no offer. The defence is available but the onus sits on the defendant to prove it, which is a different position from the regulator having to prove an intention to supply.","instrument":{"name":"Australian Consumer Law (Competition and Consumer Act 2010, Schedule 2)","short_name":"AU ACL","citation":"Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/australian-consumer-law-competition-and-consumer-act-2010-schedule-2/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00109/latest/text"}},{"summary":"A person must not, in trade or commerce, export consumer goods whose supply is prohibited by section 106(1) unless the person has applied in writing to the Commonwealth Minister for approval to export those goods and the Minister has given that approval by written notice. A pecuniary penalty may be imposed for a contravention.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Goods that fail an Australian safety standard cannot simply be shipped somewhere with no such standard. Approval is per-application and written, and section 106(6) requires particulars of any approval given to be tabled in each House of the Commonwealth Parliament within seven sitting days.","instrument":{"name":"Australian Consumer Law (Competition and Consumer Act 2010, Schedule 2)","short_name":"AU ACL","citation":"Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/australian-consumer-law-competition-and-consumer-act-2010-schedule-2/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00109/latest/text"}},{"summary":"Where a safety standard specifies two or more sets of requirements as alternative methods of complying, and the regulator gives a supplier a written request to nominate which set it has complied with, is complying with, or intends to comply with, the supplier must give the regulator a written notice nominating that set within the period specified in the request.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This bites on the recorded care labelling standard F2023L01187, whose sections 11 and 12 are alternatives - AS/NZS 1957:1998 as varied, or clause 4 of ISO 3758:2012. Choosing a route is not the end of it: the route chosen is answerable on request, which means it has to have been decided and recorded rather than settled after the fact. The section reaches a supplier who has supplied, is supplying, or merely intends to supply.","instrument":{"name":"Australian Consumer Law (Competition and Consumer Act 2010, Schedule 2)","short_name":"AU ACL","citation":"Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/australian-consumer-law-competition-and-consumer-act-2010-schedule-2/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00109/latest/text"}},{"summary":"Where a person supplies consumer goods in contravention of section 106 and another person suffers loss or damage because of a defect in or dangerous characteristic of the goods, because of a reasonably foreseeable use or misuse of them, or because information required by the safety standard was not provided, and that loss or damage would not have been suffered had the goods complied, the loss or damage is taken to have been suffered because of that supply.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"A deeming provision on causation rather than a duty in its own right, recorded because it changes what a claimant has to establish. Missing information required by the standard is named alongside a physical defect, so a labelling failure sits on the same footing as a dangerous characteristic.","instrument":{"name":"Australian Consumer Law (Competition and Consumer Act 2010, Schedule 2)","short_name":"AU ACL","citation":"Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/australian-consumer-law-competition-and-consumer-act-2010-schedule-2/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00109/latest/text"}},{"summary":"The Commonwealth Minister may, by written notice, make a safety standard for consumer goods or product related services of a particular kind for the purposes of preventing or reducing the risk of injury to any person. A safety standard for consumer goods may consist of requirements about performance, composition, contents, methods of manufacture or processing, design, construction, finish or packaging; about testing during or after manufacture or processing; and about the form and content of markings, warnings, instructions or other information accompanying the goods.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["AU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Recorded because it sets the outer limit of what a future Australian standard can require, and that limit is wide: composition and methods of manufacture are named, not only performance and labelling. A standard reaching into how cloth is made would be within power.","instrument":{"name":"Australian Consumer Law (Competition and Consumer Act 2010, Schedule 2)","short_name":"AU ACL","citation":"Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2","jurisdiction":"AU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/australian-consumer-law-competition-and-consumer-act-2010-schedule-2/","official_url":"https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00109/latest/text"}},{"summary":"Tight-fitting children's sleepwear, tested to CGSB standard CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.5 (45° angle test, one-second flame impingement), must have a flame spread time of more than seven seconds.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","childrenswear"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The regulations distinguish tight-fitting from loose-fitting sleepwear and set a different test for each, which is the distinction a supplier has to get right before choosing a fabric. The record carries the general duty the instrument imposes. It does not enumerate the exemptions, schedules and test conditions, which are in the instrument itself.","instrument":{"name":"Children's Sleepwear Regulations","short_name":"Canada Children's Sleepwear","citation":"SOR/2016-169","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-childrens-sleepwear-sor-2016-169/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2016-169/index.html"}},{"summary":"Loose-fitting children's sleepwear, tested in accordance with Schedule 1, must have an average char length across five specimens not exceeding 178 mm, with no more than one specimen charred over its full length.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","childrenswear"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"","instrument":{"name":"Children's Sleepwear Regulations","short_name":"Canada Children's Sleepwear","citation":"SOR/2016-169","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-childrens-sleepwear-sor-2016-169/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2016-169/index.html"}},{"summary":"Loose-fitting children's sleepwear treated with a flame retardant must carry a permanently affixed label displaying the words \"flame retardant\" and \"ignifugeant\" clearly and legibly, with care instructions in English and French.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","childrenswear"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Both languages are required on the label, not either one.","instrument":{"name":"Children's Sleepwear Regulations","short_name":"Canada Children's Sleepwear","citation":"SOR/2016-169","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-childrens-sleepwear-sor-2016-169/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2016-169/index.html"}},{"summary":"No person may manufacture, import, advertise or sell a consumer product that does not meet the requirements set out in the regulations made under the Act.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel","childrenswear"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the section that makes the Textile Flammability Regulations and the Children's Sleepwear Regulations enforceable rather than advisory; both are made under this Act and both are already in this register. The Act is horizontal and reaches consumer products generally; it is recorded here for the textile articles that fall within it.","instrument":{"name":"Canada Consumer Product Safety Act","short_name":"Canada CCPSA","citation":"S.C. 2010, c. 21","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-consumer-product-safety-act/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-1.68/index.html"}},{"summary":"No manufacturer or importer may manufacture, import, advertise or sell a consumer product that is a danger to human health or safety, that is the subject of a recall order or a voluntary recall in Canada made because the product is such a danger, or that is the subject of a required measure they have not carried out.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel","childrenswear"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Section 8 places a parallel prohibition on any person who advertises or sells such a product and who knows of the danger, recall or outstanding measure, so the knowledge qualifier separates the two sections rather than the conduct. Section 5 separately prohibits any product listed in Schedule 2 outright. The Act is horizontal and reaches consumer products generally; it is recorded here for the textile articles that fall within it.","instrument":{"name":"Canada Consumer Product Safety Act","short_name":"Canada CCPSA","citation":"S.C. 2010, c. 21","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-consumer-product-safety-act/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-1.68/index.html"}},{"summary":"No person may package or label a consumer product in a manner, including one that is false, misleading or deceptive, that may reasonably be expected to create an erroneous impression that the product is not a danger to human health or safety, or in a manner that is false, misleading or deceptive about its safety certification or its compliance with a safety standard or the regulations.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The second limb reaches a claim about certification or about compliance with a standard, which is the limb a textile label is most likely to touch. Section 10 carries the same prohibition for advertising and selling. The Act is horizontal and reaches consumer products generally; it is recorded here for the textile articles that fall within it.","instrument":{"name":"Canada Consumer Product Safety Act","short_name":"Canada CCPSA","citation":"S.C. 2010, c. 21","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-consumer-product-safety-act/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-1.68/index.html"}},{"summary":"A person who manufactures, imports, advertises, sells or tests a consumer product for commercial purposes must prepare and maintain documents identifying, for a retailer, the person from whom the product was obtained and where and when it was sold, and for anyone else, the person from whom it was obtained or to whom it was sold. The documents must be kept until six years after the end of the year to which they relate, at the person's place in Canada, and provided to the Minister on written request.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Subsection (4) lets the Minister exempt a person from keeping the documents in Canada where that is unnecessary or impractical, on terms the Minister specifies. Subsection (5) requires an importer to provide prescribed documents no later than the time of importation. The Act is horizontal and reaches consumer products generally; it is recorded here for the textile articles that fall within it.","instrument":{"name":"Canada Consumer Product Safety Act","short_name":"Canada CCPSA","citation":"S.C. 2010, c. 21","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-consumer-product-safety-act/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-1.68/index.html"}},{"summary":"A person who manufactures, imports or sells a consumer product for commercial purposes must give the Minister, and the person from whom they received the product, all the information in their control about an incident related to it within two days of becoming aware of the incident. The manufacturer, or the importer where the manufacturer carries on business outside Canada, must then give the Minister a written report within ten days, covering the incident, the product, any other product of theirs that could be involved in a similar incident, and the measures they propose.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["consumer_products","textiles","apparel","childrenswear"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Incident is defined at subsection (1) and is wider than an injury: it covers an occurrence in Canada or elsewhere that resulted or might reasonably have been expected to result in death or serious adverse health effects, a defect or characteristic that might reasonably be expected to do so, and incorrect, insufficient or absent labelling or instructions that might reasonably be expected to do so. A label defect is an incident under this Act. The ten-day period may be replaced by a period the Minister specifies in writing. The Act is horizontal and reaches consumer products generally; it is recorded here for the textile articles that fall within it.","instrument":{"name":"Canada Consumer Product Safety Act","short_name":"Canada CCPSA","citation":"S.C. 2010, c. 21","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-consumer-product-safety-act/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-1.68/index.html"}},{"summary":"These Regulations do not apply to children's sleepwear in sizes up to and including 14X; dolls, plush toys, soft toys and toys intended to be entered by a child; cribs, cradles and bassinets; playpens; expansion gates and expandable enclosures for children; textile floor coverings; tents; or mattresses.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the RESIDUAL rule: it governs whatever is not carved out. Seven of the eight excluded categories have their own instrument, several of which this register already holds — playpens SOR/2018-186, cribs cradles and bassinets SOR/2016-152, mattresses SOR/2016-183, tents SOR/2024-217. A supplier who finds this general rule first and stops has skipped the specific one that actually governs their product.","instrument":{"name":"Canada Textile Flammability — SOR/2016-194","short_name":"Canada Textile Flammability","citation":"SOR/2016-194","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-textile-flammability-sor-2016-194/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2016-194/FullText.html"}},{"summary":"The flame spread time for textile products without a raised fibre surface must be greater than 3.5 seconds. For textile products with a raised fibre surface that exhibits ignition or fusion of its base fibres, the flame spread time must be greater than 4 seconds.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The raised-surface limb is conditional in the same way as 16 CFR 1610: it bites only where the surface ignites or the base fibres fuse. The structure mirrors the US rule and the NUMBERS DO NOT — the US Class 1 limits are 3.5 and 7.0 seconds where Canada sets 3.5 and 4. A US test result carried north on the assumption the tests agree is relying on figures that differ.","instrument":{"name":"Canada Textile Flammability — SOR/2016-194","short_name":"Canada Textile Flammability","citation":"SOR/2016-194","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-textile-flammability-sor-2016-194/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2016-194/FullText.html"}},{"summary":"Every representation label applied to a consumer textile article that is sold, imported into Canada or advertised by a dealer must meet the requirements for a disclosure label, unless the article is exempted by the regulations.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"dealer_importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"A prescribed consumer textile article is one included in Schedule I; Schedule II lists what is exempt. Second-hand articles clearly labelled as such are exempt, and so are articles made up for an individual. The record carries the general duty the instrument imposes. It does not enumerate the exemptions, schedules and test conditions, which are in the instrument itself.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling and Advertising Regulations","short_name":"Canada Textile Labelling","citation":"C.R.C., c. 1551","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-textile-labelling-c-r-c-c-1551/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/C.R.C.,_c._1551/index.html"}},{"summary":"A disclosure label must show the textile fibre content of the article in the manner prescribed in Part III of the regulations, together with the name and postal address of the dealer.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"dealer_importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Part III governs how fibre content is expressed, including generic names, fibres with no prescribed generic name, and how pile, coated and sectioned articles are handled. The record carries the general duty the instrument imposes. It does not enumerate the exemptions, schedules and test conditions, which are in the instrument itself.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling and Advertising Regulations","short_name":"Canada Textile Labelling","citation":"C.R.C., c. 1551","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/canada-textile-labelling-c-r-c-c-1551/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/C.R.C.,_c._1551/index.html"}},{"summary":"Each accessible part of a consumer product containing lead must not contain more than 90 mg/kg of lead when tested in accordance with good laboratory practices. Clothing and clothing accessories intended for use by a child under 14 years of age are within the definition of such a product, so the limit reaches every part of a children's garment that may be touched, licked, mouthed or swallowed in reasonably foreseeable use.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","childrenswear","clothing_accessories","textiles"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The limit is a CONTENT limit, not a migration limit, and it applies part by part rather than to the garment as a whole. In practice that puts it on trims, fasteners, zips, prints and appliqué rather than on the cloth. \"Accessible part\" is defined by what may be touched, licked, mouthed or swallowed during reasonably foreseeable use, which for childrenswear is a wide reading. Nothing in the regulation's title or operative text says textile: it reaches childrenswear only through the definition.","instrument":{"name":"Consumer Products Containing Lead Regulations — SOR/2018-83","short_name":"Canada Lead in Consumer Products","citation":"SOR/2018-83","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/consumer-products-containing-lead-regulations-sor-2018-83/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2018-83/FullText.html"}},{"summary":"An accessible part may exceed 90 mg/kg of lead only where all three conditions are met: lead is necessary to produce an essential characteristic of the part; no alternative part containing less lead is available; and the part, tested in accordance with good laboratory practices, does not release more than 90 mg/kg of lead.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","childrenswear","clothing_accessories","textiles"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The three conditions are cumulative, not alternatives — the section joins (a) and (b) to (c) with \"and\". This is where the rule switches from content to RELEASE: a part relying on the exception is measured on what it gives up, not on what it holds. A supplier claiming the exception is asserting all three, including that no lower-lead alternative part exists, which is a sourcing claim rather than a test result and is the limb least likely to be evidenced.","instrument":{"name":"Consumer Products Containing Lead Regulations — SOR/2018-83","short_name":"Canada Lead in Consumer Products","citation":"SOR/2018-83","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/consumer-products-containing-lead-regulations-sor-2018-83/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2018-83/FullText.html"}},{"summary":"Economic operators that discard unsold consumer products, directly or on their behalf, must disclose annually: the number and weight discarded per year by product type or category; the reasons for discarding and any derogation relied on; the proportion delivered to preparing for reuse (including refurbishment and remanufacturing), recycling, other recovery including energy recovery, and disposal, in accordance with the waste hierarchy; and the measures taken and planned to prevent destruction of unsold consumer products. The disclosure must be clear, visible and on at least an easily accessible page of the operator's website.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","clothing_accessories","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The disclosure duty is separate from the prohibition and is triggered by discarding, not by being caught by the ban — so it can bind an operator whose products are not in Annex VII at all. The publication route is prescribed: an easily accessible page of the website, not a figure supplied on request.","instrument":{"name":"ESPR — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","short_name":"ESPR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/espr-regulation-eu-2024-1781/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R1781"}},{"summary":"Where information requirements so provide, a product may only be placed on the market or put into service if a digital product passport is available in accordance with the applicable delegated acts adopted under Article 4 and with Articles 10 and 11, and the data in that passport must be accurate, complete and up to date.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Conditional, and it stays conditional: the duty bites only through a delegated act adopted under Article 4 for a given product group. NO DELEGATED ACT FOR TEXTILES EXISTS, so there is no textile passport requirement in force and no textile field list — anything published as one is a forecast. What is settled is the mechanism and the accuracy standard, not the content.","instrument":{"name":"ESPR — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","short_name":"ESPR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/espr-regulation-eu-2024-1781/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R1781"}},{"summary":"The delegated acts establishing a digital product passport for a product group must specify, as appropriate: the data to be included pursuant to Annex III; the data carriers to be used; the layout and positioning of the carrier; whether the passport is at model, batch or item level; how it is made accessible to customers before they are bound by a contract for sale, hire or hire purchase, including in distance selling; which actors have access to which data; and which actors are to create the passport.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the list of things that are NOT yet decided for textiles, which is more useful to a supplier than a forecast of what will be. Model, batch or item level in particular changes what a manufacturer has to be able to trace, and it is left to the delegated act.","instrument":{"name":"ESPR — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","short_name":"ESPR","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2024/1781","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/espr-regulation-eu-2024-1781/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R1781"}},{"summary":"The manufacture for sale, sale, offering for sale, importation into the United States, introduction or delivery for introduction into commerce, transportation in commerce, or sale or delivery after sale or shipment in commerce, of any product, fabric or related material that fails to conform to an applicable standard or regulation issued under section 1193 is unlawful, and is an unfair method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","upholstery","mattresses","carpets","floor_coverings"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the section the ten recorded 16 CFR flammability parts rest on; each of them states a test method and a pass criterion, and none of them states the prohibition. The route to enforcement runs through the FTC Act rather than through the standard itself. Section 1191 defines the reach: \"product\" is any article of wearing apparel or interior furnishing, and \"interior furnishing\" is any furnishing made in whole or in part of fabric or related material intended for, or reasonably expected to be used in, homes, offices or other places of assembly or accommodation. \"Fabric\" excludes fibre, filament or yarn - but only where it is for other than retail sale, so yarn sold at retail falls inside the Act.","instrument":{"name":"Flammable Fabrics Act","short_name":"US FFA","citation":"15 U.S.C. 1191-1204","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/flammable-fabrics-act/","official_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/15/1192"}},{"summary":"The same prohibition applies to any product made of fabric or related material that fails to conform to an applicable standard or regulation and that has been shipped or received in commerce.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Subsection (b) reaches the converter and the cut-and-sew operation rather than the mill: the article is caught because of the cloth it is made from, whoever wove that cloth. A finished garment can be nonconforming without its maker having tested anything.","instrument":{"name":"Flammable Fabrics Act","short_name":"US FFA","citation":"15 U.S.C. 1191-1204","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/flammable-fabrics-act/","official_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/15/1192"}},{"summary":"Substantiation and independent verification of explicit environmental claims before they are made.","confidence":"proposed","status":"proposed","obligated_party":"trader","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"A Commission proposal, not adopted law. It has been through substantial revision during the legislative process and its scope and fate have both been publicly contested. Nothing in it binds anyone at present.","instrument":{"name":"Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims","short_name":"Green Claims Directive","citation":"COM(2023) 166 final","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/green-claims-directive-com2023-166-final/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52023PC0166"}},{"summary":"Textile products for ordinary consumer use are household goods under the Act where the Cabinet Order designates them, and the Prime Minister fixes by public notice, for each such good, the quality matters that must be labelled and the matters a manufacturer, seller or labeller must observe when labelling them.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["JP"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Article 2(1)(i) reaches textile products a consumer finds it markedly difficult to judge the quality of at purchase, as designated by Cabinet Order. Article 3(1) separates the two kinds of requirement the notices carry: matters to be labelled, and matters to be observed in labelling them. The record carries the duty the article imposes. The designated goods, the labelling standards themselves and the exemptions live in the Cabinet Order, the enforcement regulation and the public notices made under the Act.","instrument":{"name":"Household Goods Quality Labeling Act (家庭用品品質表示法)","short_name":"Japan Household Goods Quality Labeling","citation":"Act No. 104 of 1962 (昭和三十七年法律第百四号)","jurisdiction":"JP","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/household-goods-quality-labeling-act-%e5%ae%b6%e5%ba%ad%e7%94%a8%e5%93%81%e5%93%81%e8%b3%aa%e8%a1%a8%e7%a4%ba%e6%b3%95/","official_url":"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/337AC0000000104"}},{"summary":"Where a manufacturer, seller or labeller does not display the labelled matters or does not observe the compliance matters fixed by public notice, the Prime Minister or the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may instruct that business to do so, and the Prime Minister may make public the fact that a business has not followed the instruction.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["JP"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Where the business is a retailer rather than a wholesaler the power sits with the Prime Minister alone. The record carries the duty the article imposes. The designated goods, the labelling standards themselves and the exemptions live in the Cabinet Order, the enforcement regulation and the public notices made under the Act.","instrument":{"name":"Household Goods Quality Labeling Act (家庭用品品質表示法)","short_name":"Japan Household Goods Quality Labeling","citation":"Act No. 104 of 1962 (昭和三十七年法律第百四号)","jurisdiction":"JP","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/household-goods-quality-labeling-act-%e5%ae%b6%e5%ba%ad%e7%94%a8%e5%93%81%e5%93%81%e8%b3%aa%e8%a1%a8%e7%a4%ba%e6%b3%95/","official_url":"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/337AC0000000104"}},{"summary":"Where the Prime Minister finds it particularly necessary, an order may be made requiring that labelling of a household good follow the compliance matters fixed for it, and breach of such an order carries a fine of up to 200,000 yen.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["JP"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"A fine of up to 200,000 yen (二十万円以下の罰金) for breach of an order under Articles 5 to 7 or of Article 8(5).","notes":"The record carries the duty the article imposes. The designated goods, the labelling standards themselves and the exemptions live in the Cabinet Order, the enforcement regulation and the public notices made under the Act.","instrument":{"name":"Household Goods Quality Labeling Act (家庭用品品質表示法)","short_name":"Japan Household Goods Quality Labeling","citation":"Act No. 104 of 1962 (昭和三十七年法律第百四号)","jurisdiction":"JP","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/household-goods-quality-labeling-act-%e5%ae%b6%e5%ba%ad%e7%94%a8%e5%93%81%e5%93%81%e8%b3%aa%e8%a1%a8%e7%a4%ba%e6%b3%95/","official_url":"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/337AC0000000104"}},{"summary":"The Prime Minister or the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may require reports from manufacturers, wholesalers and labellers and may have officials enter their factories, business sites, stores, offices or warehouses to inspect the goods and the books, and failing to report, reporting falsely, or refusing or obstructing the inspection carries a fine of up to 50,000 yen.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["JP"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"A fine of up to 50,000 yen (五万円以下の罰金).","notes":"Article 19(4) states that the inspection power is not to be construed as granted for criminal investigation. The record carries the duty the article imposes. The designated goods, the labelling standards themselves and the exemptions live in the Cabinet Order, the enforcement regulation and the public notices made under the Act.","instrument":{"name":"Household Goods Quality Labeling Act (家庭用品品質表示法)","short_name":"Japan Household Goods Quality Labeling","citation":"Act No. 104 of 1962 (昭和三十七年法律第百四号)","jurisdiction":"JP","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/household-goods-quality-labeling-act-%e5%ae%b6%e5%ba%ad%e7%94%a8%e5%93%81%e5%93%81%e8%b3%aa%e8%a1%a8%e7%a4%ba%e6%b3%95/","official_url":"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/337AC0000000104"}},{"summary":"Substances listed in Annex I may not be manufactured, placed on the market or used, including as constituents of articles, above the concentration limits that Annex sets.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","coated_fabrics","all_articles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Reaches textiles mainly through the perfluorinated substances used in durable water repellent finishes. The limits sit in Annex I and are amended by separate delegated regulations, so the base text is the framework and not the current list. Unlike REACH restrictions, a POPs limit applies to the substance as an unintentional trace contaminant as well as an intentional ingredient.","instrument":{"name":"Persistent organic pollutants","short_name":"POPs Regulation","citation":"Regulation (EU) 2019/1021","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/pops-regulation-regulation-eu-2019-1021/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/1021/oj"}},{"summary":"A substance on its own, in a mixture or in an article for which Annex XVII contains a restriction may not be manufactured, placed on the market or used unless it complies with the conditions of that restriction. The prohibition does not apply to manufacture, placing on the market or use in scientific research and development, and Annex XVII itself specifies where a restriction does not apply to product and process orientated research and development, with the maximum quantity exempted.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The restriction reaches a substance IN AN ARTICLE, not only a substance sold as such — which is what puts a finished garment inside it. Annex XVII is the operative list and it moves independently of this Article; entries relevant to textiles include azo dyes, chromium VI in leather, nickel release, and the restriction on synthetic polymer microparticles added by Regulation (EU) 2023/2055. This record does not enumerate Annex XVII, so which entries bind a given product is a question about that Annex on the day.","instrument":{"name":"REACH — Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006","short_name":"REACH","citation":"Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/reach-regulation-ec-no-1907-2006/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2006/1907/oj"}},{"summary":"Any supplier of an article containing a candidate-list substance above 0,1 % weight by weight must provide the RECIPIENT of the article with sufficient information, available to the supplier, to allow safe use of the article — including, as a minimum, the name of that substance.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This limb runs down the supply chain and is not triggered by any request — it is owed automatically to the recipient of the article. \"Available to the supplier\" bounds it: the duty is to pass on what is held, which is why it fails in practice at the point where nobody upstream was asked. The trigger is a substance meeting the Article 57 criteria AND identified under Article 59(1) — that is, on the candidate list — above 0,1 % w/w. The threshold is per article, which for a garment means the component rather than the finished product: a zip puller, a coating, a print.","instrument":{"name":"REACH — Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006","short_name":"REACH","citation":"Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/reach-regulation-ec-no-1907-2006/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2006/1907/oj"}},{"summary":"On request by a consumer, any supplier of an article containing a candidate-list substance above 0,1 % weight by weight must provide that consumer with sufficient information, available to the supplier, to allow safe use of the article — including at minimum the substance name — free of charge and within 45 days of receiving the request.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Recorded separately from 33(1) because the trigger and the timing both differ: this one is owed to a CONSUMER, only on request, free of charge, and carries the only deadline in the Article — 45 days. A retailer with no answer ready has 45 days to obtain one from a supply chain that may never have been asked. The trigger is a substance meeting the Article 57 criteria AND identified under Article 59(1) — that is, on the candidate list — above 0,1 % w/w. The threshold is per article, which for a garment means the component rather than the finished product: a zip puller, a coating, a print.","instrument":{"name":"REACH — Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006","short_name":"REACH","citation":"Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/reach-regulation-ec-no-1907-2006/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2006/1907/oj"}},{"summary":"Producers of covered products must form and join a producer responsibility organisation (PRO) in order to comply with the chapter. The PRO's governing body must apply to the department by 1 January 2026, describing how it meets the requirements to be an approved PRO.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"producer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles","home_textiles","clothing_accessories"],"market_scope":["US-CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The duty is collective by design — a producer complies THROUGH a PRO rather than individually, which is what distinguishes an EPR scheme from a labelling or content rule. The department may approve additional PROs only after 1 January 2035, so for the first decade this is effectively a single organisation.","instrument":{"name":"Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 — California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024)","short_name":"Responsible Textile Recovery Act","citation":"California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024)","jurisdiction":"US-CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/responsible-textile-recovery-act-of-2024-california-public-resources-code-added-by-sb-707-2024/","official_url":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB707"}},{"summary":"An administrative civil penalty of up to $10,000 per day may be imposed by the department on any person in violation of the chapter, rising to up to $50,000 per day where the violation is intentional or knowing.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"producer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles","home_textiles","clothing_accessories"],"market_scope":["US-CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Per day, not per violation, which is what makes non-participation expensive rather than merely penalised. The intentional-or-knowing tier at five times the base rate is the reason the reporting duties under this chapter are given under penalty of perjury.","instrument":{"name":"Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 — California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024)","short_name":"Responsible Textile Recovery Act","citation":"California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024)","jurisdiction":"US-CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/responsible-textile-recovery-act-of-2024-california-public-resources-code-added-by-sb-707-2024/","official_url":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB707"}},{"summary":"The introduction, delivery for introduction, manufacture for introduction, sale, advertising or offering for sale in commerce, the transportation or causing to be transported in commerce, or the importation into the United States, of any textile fiber product that is misbranded or falsely or deceptively advertised is unlawful, and is an unfair method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Advertising is named in the same breath as sale, so a fibre claim made in a catalogue carries the same exposure as one made on a label.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Fiber Products Identification Act","short_name":"US TFPIA","citation":"15 U.S.C. 70-70k","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-fiber-products-identification-act/","official_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/15/70b"}},{"summary":"A textile fiber product is misbranded unless a stamp, tag or label affixed to it shows, in plainly legible words and figures, each natural or manufactured fibre by its generic name with equal prominence and in order of predominance by weight, for every fibre that is 5 per cent or more of the total fibre weight. A fibre or group of fibres present at 5 per cent or less by weight may not be designated by generic name or trademark and is designated only as \"other fiber\" or \"other fibers\", unless it has a clearly established and definite functional significance at the amount present.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The 5 per cent threshold is statutory, not a rule of the Commission, and it cuts both ways: a minor fibre may not be named, which is a prohibition rather than a permission. The functional-significance carve-out is what allows a small percentage of elastane to be declared. A nondeceptive trademark may accompany the generic name but not replace it.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Fiber Products Identification Act","short_name":"US TFPIA","citation":"15 U.S.C. 70-70k","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-fiber-products-identification-act/","official_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/15/70b"}},{"summary":"The label also shows the percentage of each fibre present by weight of the total fibre content, exclusive of ornamentation not exceeding 5 per cent by weight of the total fibre content.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Two separate 5 per cent figures sit in the same subsection and are not the same test: one is the disclosure threshold for a constituent fibre, the other is how much ornamentation may be left out of the denominator. A record that conflates them will compute the wrong percentages.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Fiber Products Identification Act","short_name":"US TFPIA","citation":"15 U.S.C. 70-70k","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-fiber-products-identification-act/","official_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/15/70b"}},{"summary":"The label also shows the name of the manufacturer, or an identification issued and registered by the Commission; for an imported product, the name of the country where it was processed or manufactured; and for a product processed or manufactured in the United States, an identification to that effect.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The Commission-issued identification is the RN number, which the statute permits in place of a name. Country of origin is required of an imported product and a positive US identification of a domestic one, so silence is not an option in either direction.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Fiber Products Identification Act","short_name":"US TFPIA","citation":"15 U.S.C. 70-70k","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-fiber-products-identification-act/","official_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/15/70b"}},{"summary":"A textile fiber product is falsely or deceptively advertised if any written advertisement used to aid or promote its sale discloses or implies fibre content without carrying the same information required on the label.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The trigger is an implication of fibre content, not a stated percentage, so a description that merely suggests a fibre pulls the full disclosure with it.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Fiber Products Identification Act","short_name":"US TFPIA","citation":"15 U.S.C. 70-70k","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-fiber-products-identification-act/","official_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/15/70b"}},{"summary":"No dealer may sell, import into Canada or advertise a prescribed consumer textile article unless it has applied to it a label containing a representation with respect to the textile fibre content of the article, or any consumer textile article carrying such a label unless the label is applied in accordance with and complies with all applicable provisions of the Act.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"Section 12(1) makes a contravention of sections 3, 4 or 5 an offence: a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars on summary conviction, or ten thousand on conviction on indictment. Section 12(2) covers a contravention of any other provision or of the regulations, at not more than one thousand dollars on summary conviction or imprisonment for up to six months.","notes":"The prohibition has two limbs and the second reaches further than the first: a product that is not prescribed, and so needs no label, is still caught if it carries a fibre-content label that does not comply. Labelling voluntarily does not escape the Act. This is the Act under which the Textile Labelling and Advertising Regulations, C.R.C. c. 1551, are made, and those are already in this register.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Act","short_name":"Canada Textile Labelling Act","citation":"R.S.C., 1985, c. T-10","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-act/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/T-10/index.html"}},{"summary":"Each label containing a representation with respect to the textile fibre content of the article it is applied to must be applied in the form and manner prescribed, and must show, in the form and manner prescribed, the generic name of each textile fibre comprising five per cent or more by mass of the total fibre mass of the article, and, subject to the regulations, the percentage by mass that each named fibre represents.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The five per cent threshold is by mass of total fibre mass, and it is the same figure the United States uses at 16 CFR 303.16, which is also in this register. The two are independent instruments that agree on this one number and not necessarily on anything else. The form and manner are left to the regulations, so the Act alone does not tell a reader what a compliant label looks like. Section 12(1) makes a contravention of sections 3, 4 or 5 an offence: a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars on summary conviction, or ten thousand on conviction on indictment. Section 12(2) covers a contravention of any other provision or of the regulations, at not more than one thousand dollars on summary conviction or imprisonment for up to six months.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Act","short_name":"Canada Textile Labelling Act","citation":"R.S.C., 1985, c. T-10","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-act/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/T-10/index.html"}},{"summary":"No dealer may, in advertising a consumer textile article, make any representation with respect to the textile fibre content of the article except in accordance with the regulations.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Advertise is defined at section 2 as any representation to the public by any means whatever, expressly excluding a representation on a label, so this duty and the labelling duty do not overlap: the label is governed by sections 3 and 6, and everything else said publicly by this section. Section 12(1) makes a contravention of sections 3, 4 or 5 an offence: a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars on summary conviction, or ten thousand on conviction on indictment. Section 12(2) covers a contravention of any other provision or of the regulations, at not more than one thousand dollars on summary conviction or imprisonment for up to six months.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Act","short_name":"Canada Textile Labelling Act","citation":"R.S.C., 1985, c. T-10","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-act/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/T-10/index.html"}},{"summary":"No dealer may apply to a consumer textile article a label containing any false or misleading representation relating to the article, nor sell, import or advertise an article carrying such a label, nor by any means make a false or misleading representation relating to a textile fibre product.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["CA"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Subsection (3) defines a false or misleading representation to include one in which expressions, words, figures, depictions or symbols are arranged or shown in a manner that may reasonably be regarded as likely to deceive with respect to textile fibre content. Arrangement alone can offend, so a label whose individual statements are each true may still be caught by how they are laid out. Section 12(1) makes a contravention of sections 3, 4 or 5 an offence: a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars on summary conviction, or ten thousand on conviction on indictment. Section 12(2) covers a contravention of any other provision or of the regulations, at not more than one thousand dollars on summary conviction or imprisonment for up to six months.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Act","short_name":"Canada Textile Labelling Act","citation":"R.S.C., 1985, c. T-10","jurisdiction":"CA","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-act/","official_url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/T-10/index.html"}},{"summary":"Textile products may only be made available on the market where they are labelled, marked or accompanied by commercial documents in compliance with this Regulation.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The gate is on making available, and the three routes are alternatives: a label, a marking, or accompanying commercial documents. Article 14(2) limits the document route to supplies between economic operators in the chain and to contracting-authority orders, so it is not available for a consumer sale.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","short_name":"Textile Labelling Regulation","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-regulation-regulation-eu-no-1007-2011/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1007/oj"}},{"summary":"Only the textile fibre names listed in Annex I may be used to describe fibre compositions on labels and markings. Those names are reserved to fibres whose nature corresponds to the Annex I description and may not be used for other fibres, whether alone, as a root or as an adjective. The term \"silk\" may not be used to indicate the shape or particular presentation of continuous filament yarn.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The reservation runs both ways: an Annex I name cannot be applied to a fibre that is not that fibre, and it cannot be borrowed as a root or adjective — which is what rules out constructions built on a protected name. Any fibre not in Annex I has no lawful name for this purpose until it is added.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","short_name":"Textile Labelling Regulation","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-regulation-regulation-eu-no-1007-2011/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1007/oj"}},{"summary":"Only textile products composed exclusively of the same fibre may be labelled \"100 %\", \"pure\" or \"all\", and those or similar terms may not be used for other products. A product containing no more than 2 % by weight of extraneous fibres may still be treated as exclusively composed of the same fibre where that quantity is justified as technically unavoidable in good manufacturing practice and is not added as a matter of routine; for a product that has undergone carding the figure is 5 % on the same conditions.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The tolerance is not an allowance to be spent. Both limbs require the quantity to be technically unavoidable in good manufacturing practice AND not added as a matter of routine, so a deliberate 2 % addition fails the test even though it meets the number. \"Or similar terms\" reaches wording that is not the three quoted words.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","short_name":"Textile Labelling Regulation","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-regulation-regulation-eu-no-1007-2011/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1007/oj"}},{"summary":"A textile product must be labelled or marked with the name and percentage by weight of all constituent fibres, in descending order. By derogation, a fibre accounting for up to 5 % of total weight, or fibres collectively accounting for up to 15 %, may be designated \"other fibres\" immediately preceded or followed by their total percentage by weight, where they cannot easily be stated at the time of manufacture.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Descending order is part of the duty, not a convention. The derogation has a condition that is easy to miss: it applies only where the fibres cannot easily be stated at the time of manufacture, so it is not a general rounding allowance for small constituents that are perfectly well known.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","short_name":"Textile Labelling Regulation","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-regulation-regulation-eu-no-1007-2011/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1007/oj"}},{"summary":"The presence of non-textile parts of animal origin in a textile product must be indicated using the phrase \"Contains non-textile parts of animal origin\" on the labelling or marking, whenever the product is made available on the market. The labelling or marking must not be misleading and must be done so that the consumer can easily understand it.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","clothing_accessories"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The wording is prescribed rather than described — the Regulation gives the phrase to be used. It reaches leather trim, horn or bone buttons, fur detail and feather fill, none of which is a textile fibre and none of which appears in the composition statement.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","short_name":"Textile Labelling Regulation","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-regulation-regulation-eu-no-1007-2011/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1007/oj"}},{"summary":"Textile products must be labelled or marked to indicate their fibre composition whenever they are made available on the market, and that labelling or marking must be durable, easily legible, visible and accessible — and, in the case of a label, securely attached.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Five separate physical qualities, each of which can fail on its own: durability is about surviving use, legibility about the printing, visibility and accessibility about where the label sits, and secure attachment about the fixing. A composition statement that is correct but printed on a swing ticket that is removed at point of sale is not obviously compliant.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","short_name":"Textile Labelling Regulation","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-regulation-regulation-eu-no-1007-2011/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1007/oj"}},{"summary":"The manufacturer placing a textile product on the market must ensure the label or marking is supplied and that the information on it is accurate; where the manufacturer is not established in the Union, that duty falls on the importer. A distributor is treated as the manufacturer where it places the product on the market under its own name or trademark, attaches the label itself, or modifies the content of the label. A distributor making a product available must ensure it bears the labelling this Regulation prescribes.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"economic_operator","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["EU"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the article that decides who is actually liable, and it is the one most often assumed rather than read. A private-label buyer who puts its own brand on a supplier's garment becomes the manufacturer for this Regulation — as does anyone who merely modifies the label content. Accuracy, not just supply, is part of the duty.","instrument":{"name":"Textile Labelling Regulation — Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","short_name":"Textile Labelling Regulation","citation":"Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011","jurisdiction":"EU","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/textile-labelling-regulation-regulation-eu-no-1007-2011/","official_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1007/oj"}},{"summary":"Where the Central Government is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient in the public interest, for the protection of human, animal or plant health, safety of the environment, prevention of unfair trade practices or national security, it may — after consulting the Bureau and by order published in the Official Gazette — notify goods or articles of a scheduled industry, or the essential requirements they must conform to, and direct that use of the Standard Mark under a licence or certificate of conformity is compulsory for them.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is a POWER, not a standing duty — nothing is compulsory until an order is notified. \"Scheduled industry\" takes its meaning from the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951. In textiles this is the section the polyester and viscose fibre and yarn QCOs are made under. Each QCO is a separate Gazette notification with its own commodity list and commencement date, so whether a particular fibre, yarn or fabric is caught today is a question about the notifications and not about this Act.","instrument":{"name":"The Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016","short_name":"India BIS Act","citation":"Act No. 11 of 2016","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-bureau-of-indian-standards-act-2016/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496116"}},{"summary":"Once goods are notified under section 16(1), no person may manufacture, import, distribute, sell, hire, lease, store or exhibit them for sale either without a Standard Mark except under a valid licence, or — even holding a licence — apply a Standard Mark unless the goods actually conform to the relevant standard or prescribed essential requirements.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Limb (b) is the one that catches licensed manufacturers: holding a licence is not a defence to marking non-conforming goods. The list of verbs reaches storing and exhibiting, so a warehouse holding notified goods without the mark is inside this before anything is sold.","instrument":{"name":"The Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016","short_name":"India BIS Act","citation":"Act No. 11 of 2016","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-bureau-of-indian-standards-act-2016/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496116"}},{"summary":"No person may claim publicly — through advertisements, sales promotion leaflets, price lists or the like — that their goods conform to an Indian standard, or make such a declaration on the goods themselves, without holding a valid certificate of conformity or licence from the Bureau or another authority approved by the Central Government under section 16(2).","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This one does not depend on a section 16 notification at all: claiming conformity to an Indian standard without a licence is prohibited whether or not the commodity has been made compulsory. It reaches marketing copy, catalogues and price lists as well as the product, so \"conforms to IS ____\" on a tech pack or a listing is the exposure.","instrument":{"name":"The Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016","short_name":"India BIS Act","citation":"Act No. 11 of 2016","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-bureau-of-indian-standards-act-2016/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496116"}},{"summary":"A licence holder remains responsible at all times for the conformance of goods carrying the Standard Mark. A distributor or seller must ensure that goods carrying the Standard Mark were purchased from a certified body or licence holder, and before goods are sold, offered or exhibited for sale the seller must ensure they bear the labels and marking details the Bureau specifies and that marking and labelling on the product or its covering is displayed in the manner the Bureau specifies.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The duty is split deliberately across the chain: conformance stays with the licence holder, provenance falls on the distributor or seller, and presentation of the marking falls on the seller. A buyer of marked goods therefore has a duty of their own — to have bought from a certified body or licence holder — which is not discharged by the mark being present.","instrument":{"name":"The Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016","short_name":"India BIS Act","citation":"Act No. 11 of 2016","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-bureau-of-indian-standards-act-2016/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496116"}},{"summary":"Where the Central Government has by Gazette order reserved an article or class of articles for exclusive production by handlooms, that article may not, from the date of reservation, be produced on any loom other than a handloom. A handloom is defined as any loom other than a power loom, and a power loom as a loom worked by power as defined in the Factories Act 1948.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"producer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"The section headed \"Penalty for contravention of orders made under section 3\" provides imprisonment which may extend to three months, or a fine of not less than ten thousand and up to twenty-five thousand rupees per loom, or both; for a continuing or repeated contravention after a first conviction, an additional fine of one thousand and up to five thousand rupees per loom per day. The articles and the powerloom used, together with any package, covering or receptacle, are forfeited to the Central Government unless the court records reasons for not so directing.","notes":"A proviso allows a person already engaged in producing the article on a non-handloom immediately before the date of reservation to continue for three months from that date. An order under section 3 must be laid before each House of Parliament for thirty days and may be modified or annulled. The Act confers the power; the Gazette orders made under it decide which goods are caught and from when. The register records the duty, not the current schedule of orders.","instrument":{"name":"The Handlooms (Reservation of Articles for Production) Act, 1985","short_name":"India Handlooms Reservation Act","citation":"Act No. 22 of 1985","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-handlooms-reservation-of-articles-for-production-act-1985/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496101"}},{"summary":"The Central Government may order a manufacturer to furnish information in their possession about any manufacturing activity or business carried on by them or by another person, in the form and within the period specified, and to furnish samples. Manufacturer includes both the producer and the processor, a processor being a person engaged in dyeing, bleaching, mercerising, calendering, embroidering, printing, raising, cloth embossing or any other finishing process subsequent to the production of cloth.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The definition of processor reaches finishing houses that never operate a loom, so the information duty is wider than the production prohibition it supports. The Act confers the power; the Gazette orders made under it decide which goods are caught and from when. The register records the duty, not the current schedule of orders.","instrument":{"name":"The Handlooms (Reservation of Articles for Production) Act, 1985","short_name":"India Handlooms Reservation Act","citation":"Act No. 22 of 1985","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-handlooms-reservation-of-articles-for-production-act-1985/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496101"}},{"summary":"An officer authorised by the Central Government may enter at all reasonable times any place or premises of a manufacturer where textile articles are stored, kept or exposed for sale, may require production for inspection of books of account, registers, records or other documents kept there, and may ask for information about the manufacture, storage or keeping for sale of those articles or about any powerlooms found on the premises. Where there is reason to believe a reserved article is being produced in contravention of an order, the place may be searched and the article or the powerloom seized.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The power of seizure extends to the powerloom itself, not only to the articles produced on it. Offences under the Act are cognizable. The Act confers the power; the Gazette orders made under it decide which goods are caught and from when. The register records the duty, not the current schedule of orders.","instrument":{"name":"The Handlooms (Reservation of Articles for Production) Act, 1985","short_name":"India Handlooms Reservation Act","citation":"Act No. 22 of 1985","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-handlooms-reservation-of-articles-for-production-act-1985/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496101"}},{"summary":"No person may manufacture, pack, sell, import, distribute, deliver, offer, expose or possess for sale any pre-packaged commodity unless the package is in the standard quantities or number prescribed and bears on it the declarations and particulars prescribed, in the prescribed manner. A garment sold in a polybag, box or any other package made up in advance is a pre-packaged commodity for this purpose.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles","home_textiles","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The verbs matter to an exporter: the duty attaches at manufacture, packing and import, not only at sale, so a consignment is already inside it before anything is offered to a consumer. The Act creates the duty and leaves its content to rules: what must be declared, in what form and in what manner is \"as may be prescribed\", which is the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011. So this record establishes THAT a garment sold pre-packaged in India must carry declarations, and does not state WHICH — those are in the Rules, which this register does not yet hold because the central text is a base notification plus at least five amendment items and a record drafted from the base alone would state superseded requirements.","instrument":{"name":"The Legal Metrology Act, 2009","short_name":"India Legal Metrology","citation":"Act No. 1 of 2010","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-legal-metrology-act-2009/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496114"}},{"summary":"Any advertisement mentioning the retail sale price of a pre-packaged commodity must contain a declaration of the net quantity or number of the commodity in the package, in the prescribed form and manner.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles","home_textiles","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"A duty on the advertisement rather than on the package, and it is triggered by mentioning the retail sale price. A listing that shows a price therefore carries it, which reaches marketing copy and product listings rather than the label alone.","instrument":{"name":"The Legal Metrology Act, 2009","short_name":"India Legal Metrology","citation":"Act No. 1 of 2010","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-legal-metrology-act-2009/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496114"}},{"summary":"Whoever manufactures, packs, imports, sells, distributes, delivers or otherwise transfers, offers, exposes or possesses for sale — including through digital modes of sale such as e-commerce platforms, online marketplaces or any other digital or electronic means, including electronic service providers facilitating such sales — any pre-packaged commodity that does not conform to the declarations on the package as provided in the Act is to be warned with an improvement notice, and is liable to penalty on a second offence.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles","home_textiles","consumer_products"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Two things changed here and both matter to a supplier selling into India online. The enforcement reaches e-commerce platforms, marketplaces and electronic service providers facilitating the sale, not only the seller. And the FIRST offence is an improvement notice rather than a penalty — the liability arrives on the second. Anyone reading an older copy of this section will have neither.","instrument":{"name":"The Legal Metrology Act, 2009","short_name":"India Legal Metrology","citation":"Act No. 1 of 2010","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-legal-metrology-act-2009/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496114"}},{"summary":"A duty of excise is levied as a cess on all textiles and all textile machinery manufactured in India, at a rate the Central Government fixes by notification and not exceeding one per cent ad valorem, and it is collected by the Textiles Committee from every manufacturer of textiles or textile machinery.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The proviso to sub-section (1) excludes textiles manufactured out of the handloom or powerloom industry. Sub-section (2) states the cess is in addition to any other cess or duty leviable on the same goods, so it does not displace one. The record carries the duty the section imposes. The rates, the notified standards and the prescribed procedure are in the rules and the Gazette notifications made under the Act.","instrument":{"name":"The Textiles Committee Act, 1963","short_name":"India Textiles Committee Act","citation":"Act No. 41 of 1963","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-textiles-committee-act-1963/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496093"}},{"summary":"The Committee may direct a specially authorised officer to examine the quality of textiles or the suitability of textile machinery, either at the time of manufacture or while in use in a textile mill, and that officer may inspect any operation connected with manufacture and take samples of any article, material or substance used in an article or process for which construction particulars, marks or inspection standards have been specified.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The power reaches machinery in use in a mill and not only goods at the point of manufacture. The record carries the duty the section imposes. The rates, the notified standards and the prescribed procedure are in the rules and the Gazette notifications made under the Act.","instrument":{"name":"The Textiles Committee Act, 1963","short_name":"India Textiles Committee Act","citation":"Act No. 41 of 1963","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-textiles-committee-act-1963/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496093"}},{"summary":"Where the Committee has established, adopted or recognised standard specifications for textiles or a standard type of textile machinery, and the Central Government on the Committee's recommendation is of the opinion that goods not conforming to those standards should not be exported or sold for internal consumption, it may prohibit that export or sale by order published in the Official Gazette.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["IN"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"On conviction for a first offence, imprisonment for up to one year or a fine or both; for a second or subsequent offence, imprisonment for up to one year and also a fine.","notes":"The prohibition is made by Gazette order against specified goods rather than being a standing duty, so what is prohibited at any moment is a question about the notifications rather than about this section. The record carries the duty the section imposes. The rates, the notified standards and the prescribed procedure are in the rules and the Gazette notifications made under the Act.","instrument":{"name":"The Textiles Committee Act, 1963","short_name":"India Textiles Committee Act","citation":"Act No. 41 of 1963","jurisdiction":"IN","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/the-textiles-committee-act-1963/","official_url":"https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/496093"}},{"summary":"U.S. Customs and Border Protection applies a presumption that goods, wares, articles and merchandise mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, or produced by an entity on a list required by section 2(d)(2)(B), are prohibited from importation under section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 and are not entitled to entry at any port of the United States.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"\"Wholly or in part\" is the phrase that decides scope for textiles: the presumption attaches to the INPUT, so a garment cut and sewn in a third country from Xinjiang cotton is within it. Last place of substantial transformation does not clear the presumption. It also reaches goods produced by a listed entity wherever located, which is a separate trigger from geography.","instrument":{"name":"UFLPA — Public Law 117-78","short_name":"UFLPA","citation":"Public Law 117-78","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/uflpa-public-law-117-78/","official_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ78/html/PLAW-117publ78.htm"}},{"summary":"The Commissioner applies the presumption unless satisfied that the importer of record has both fully complied with the guidance issued under section 2(d)(6) and any implementing regulations, and completely and substantively responded to all inquiries for information submitted by the Commissioner — and unless the importer shows, by clear and convincing evidence, that the goods were not mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part with forced labour.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Three tests, all required, and they are of different kinds. Two are about conduct — following the guidance, answering CBP fully — and the third is evidentiary. An importer that has done everything procedurally right still fails without clear and convincing evidence, which is a higher standard than the preponderance ordinarily applied in customs matters. The burden sits with the importer throughout.","instrument":{"name":"UFLPA — Public Law 117-78","short_name":"UFLPA","citation":"Public Law 117-78","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/uflpa-public-law-117-78/","official_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ78/html/PLAW-117publ78.htm"}},{"summary":"Not later than 30 days after determining that an exception applies, the Commissioner must submit to the appropriate congressional committees, and make available to the public, a report identifying the good and the evidence considered.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","footwear"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Recorded because it changes what seeking an exception costs. The duty is on the Commissioner rather than the importer, but its effect lands on the importer: an exception is a public document naming the good and the evidence relied on. A supplier weighing whether to contest a detention is weighing publication of its own supply-chain evidence.","instrument":{"name":"UFLPA — Public Law 117-78","short_name":"UFLPA","citation":"Public Law 117-78","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/uflpa-public-law-117-78/","official_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ78/html/PLAW-117publ78.htm"}},{"summary":"In connection with the sale, in or affecting commerce, of textile wearing apparel and certain piece goods, it is an unfair or deceptive act or practice for a manufacturer or importer to fail to disclose to a purchaser, prior to sale, instructions prescribing a regular care procedure necessary for the ordinary use and enjoyment of the product; to fail to warn a purchaser prior to sale where the product cannot be cleaned by any cleaning procedure without being harmed; or to fail to warn where any part of the prescribed care procedure that a consumer or professional cleaner could reasonably be expected to use would harm the product or others cleaned with it.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The rule is framed as unfair or deceptive PRACTICES rather than as a labelling requirement, so the breach is a failure to disclose and the exposure is under the FTC Act. All three limbs are owed PRIOR TO SALE. The third reaches harm to OTHER items cleaned alongside the product, which is a duty about the launderer's load rather than about the garment.","instrument":{"name":"US Care Labeling Rule — 16 CFR Part 423","short_name":"US Care Labeling Rule","citation":"16 CFR Part 423","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-care-labeling-rule-16-cfr-part-423/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-423"}},{"summary":"It is also an unfair or deceptive act or practice to fail to provide regular care instructions and warnings — except as to piece goods — in a form that can be referred to by the consumer throughout the useful life of the product, and to fail to possess, prior to sale, a reasonable basis for all regular care information disclosed to the purchaser.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The reasonable-basis limb is the one most often missing. A correct-looking care label with no evidence behind it violates (a)(5) on its own terms, and the evidence must exist BEFORE the sale rather than be reconstructible after a complaint. The durability limb in (a)(4) is why care information cannot live only on a swing ticket for apparel — it must survive the useful life of the product.","instrument":{"name":"US Care Labeling Rule — 16 CFR Part 423","short_name":"US Care Labeling Rule","citation":"16 CFR Part 423","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-care-labeling-rule-16-cfr-part-423/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-423"}},{"summary":"Manufacturers and importers must attach care labels so they can be seen or easily found when the product is offered for sale to consumers. Where the product is packaged, displayed or folded so that customers cannot see or easily find the label, the care information must also appear on the outside of the package or on a hang tag fastened to the product.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"A packaging duty as much as a labelling one, and it is triggered by how the goods are PRESENTED rather than by how they are made. The same garment can comply loose on a rail and fail folded in a polybag, so it is decided at the point of merchandising rather than at the mill.","instrument":{"name":"US Care Labeling Rule — 16 CFR Part 423","short_name":"US Care Labeling Rule","citation":"16 CFR Part 423","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-care-labeling-rule-16-cfr-part-423/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-423"}},{"summary":"Care labels must state the regular care needed for ordinary use. In general a label for textile wearing apparel must carry either a washing instruction or a drycleaning instruction; where either method can be used, only one need appear. Where the product cannot be cleaned by any available method without being harmed, the label must say so. Where this regulation conflicts with any regulation issued under the Flammable Fabrics Act, the Flammable Fabrics regulation governs.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"One instruction suffices where both methods work, which is why \"dryclean only\" on a washable garment is a commercial choice rather than a compliance one. The conflict rule at § 423.9 matters where a flammability standard restricts a cleaning method this rule would otherwise have the label prescribe: the Flammable Fabrics regulation wins.","instrument":{"name":"US Care Labeling Rule — 16 CFR Part 423","short_name":"US Care Labeling Rule","citation":"16 CFR Part 423","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-care-labeling-rule-16-cfr-part-423/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-423"}},{"summary":"All items defined in § 1615.1(d) — children's sleepwear in sizes 0 through 6X, and fabric or related material intended or promoted for use in it — are subject to this Standard. When tested under § 1615.4, the average char length of five specimens must not exceed 17.8 cm (7.0 in), and no individual specimen may have a char length of 25.4 cm (10 in).","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["childrenswear","apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The Standard reaches the FABRIC as well as the finished garment, where the material is intended or promoted for sleepwear use — so a mill selling into that end use is inside it. The pass criteria are measured on five specimens: an average char length not exceeding 17.8 cm (7.0 in), and no individual specimen reaching the full-specimen limit.","instrument":{"name":"US Children's Sleepwear 0–6X (FF 3-71) — 16 CFR Part 1615","short_name":"US Children's Sleepwear 0-6X","citation":"16 CFR Part 1615","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-childrens-sleepwear-0-6x-ff-3-71-16-cfr-part-1615/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1615"}},{"summary":"The flammability standards for clothing textiles and vinyl plastic film — 16 CFR parts 1610 and 1611 — are superseded by this part insofar as they apply to items defined in § 1615.1(d).","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["childrenswear","apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Recorded because reading this register's 16 CFR 1610 record alongside this one would otherwise suggest two tests where the regulation says one. For an item inside 1615 the general Class 1/2/3 clothing standard steps aside; it does not apply in addition.","instrument":{"name":"US Children's Sleepwear 0–6X (FF 3-71) — 16 CFR Part 1615","short_name":"US Children's Sleepwear 0-6X","citation":"16 CFR Part 1615","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-childrens-sleepwear-0-6x-ff-3-71-16-cfr-part-1615/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1615"}},{"summary":"All sleepwear items defined in § 1616.2(c) — children's sleepwear in sizes 7 through 14, and fabric or related material intended or promoted for use in it — are subject to this Standard. When tested under §§ 1616.4 and 1616.5, the average char length of five specimens must not exceed 17.8 cm (7.0 in), and no individual specimen may have a char length of 25.4 ± 0.5 cm (10 ± 0.2 in).","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["childrenswear","apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The full-specimen limit carries a tolerance here — 25.4 ± 0.5 cm — where the 0-6X standard states 25.4 cm flat. Quoted as written in each Part rather than harmonised between them. The pass criteria are measured on five specimens: an average char length not exceeding 17.8 cm (7.0 in), and no individual specimen reaching the full-specimen limit.","instrument":{"name":"US Children's Sleepwear 7–14 (FF 5-74) — 16 CFR Part 1616","short_name":"US Children's Sleepwear 7-14","citation":"16 CFR Part 1616","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-childrens-sleepwear-7-14-ff-5-74-16-cfr-part-1616/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1616"}},{"summary":"Children's sleepwear items meeting all the requirements of the Standard for the Flammability of Children's Sleepwear: Sizes 0 through 6X (FF 3-71), 16 CFR part 1615 subpart A, are in compliance with this Standard.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["childrenswear","apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The relationship runs ONE WAY. A 1615 pass satisfies 1616; nothing states the converse, so a 1616 pass does not carry down to the smaller sizes. That asymmetry decides which test a manufacturer runs when one product spans the size break, and reading either Part alone conceals it.","instrument":{"name":"US Children's Sleepwear 7–14 (FF 5-74) — 16 CFR Part 1616","short_name":"US Children's Sleepwear 7-14","citation":"16 CFR Part 1616","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-childrens-sleepwear-7-14-ff-5-74-16-cfr-part-1616/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1616"}},{"summary":"No article of wearing apparel or fabric subject to the Flammable Fabrics Act and its regulations may be marketed or handled if, when tested according to the procedures prescribed in section 4(a) of the Act, it is so highly flammable as to be dangerous when worn by individuals.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The operative verbs are \"marketed or handled\", which reach further than sale — handling covers the goods moving through a chain before anyone offers them to a consumer.","instrument":{"name":"US Clothing Textile Flammability (FF 3-71) — 16 CFR Part 1610","short_name":"US Clothing Textile Flammability","citation":"16 CFR Part 1610","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-clothing-textile-flammability-ff-3-71-16-cfr-part-1610/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1610"}},{"summary":"Class 1, Normal Flammability textiles are acceptable for use in clothing. A plain surface fabric is Class 1 when its burn time is 3.5 seconds or more. A raised surface fabric is Class 1 when its burn time is more than 7.0 seconds, or when it burns with a rapid surface flash of 0.0 to 7.0 seconds provided the intensity of the flame is so low as not to ignite or fuse the base fabric. Classification is on the textile in its original state and/or after refurbishing under § 1610.6(a) and (b).","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The raised-surface limb has two independent routes to Class 1 — a long burn time, OR a rapid surface flash whose flame is too weak to ignite or fuse the base fabric. A pile fabric that flashes quickly is not thereby failing. Plain-surface and raised-surface fabrics are classified by different tests, so a burn-time figure means nothing without the surface it belongs to.","instrument":{"name":"US Clothing Textile Flammability (FF 3-71) — 16 CFR Part 1610","short_name":"US Clothing Textile Flammability","citation":"16 CFR Part 1610","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-clothing-textile-flammability-ff-3-71-16-cfr-part-1610/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1610"}},{"summary":"Class 2, Intermediate flammability applies only to raised-fiber surface textiles. Such textiles are considered to be of intermediate flammability but MAY BE USED FOR CLOTHING. Class 2 is not applicable to plain surface textile fabrics.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Recorded as its own obligation because it is the provision most often stated backwards. Class 2 is permitted for clothing; it is not a failure grade. A record in this register asserting that clothing textiles must not burn faster than the Class 1 limit is contradicted by this subsection in terms.","instrument":{"name":"US Clothing Textile Flammability (FF 3-71) — 16 CFR Part 1610","short_name":"US Clothing Textile Flammability","citation":"16 CFR Part 1610","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-clothing-textile-flammability-ff-3-71-16-cfr-part-1610/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1610"}},{"summary":"Class 3, Rapid and Intense Burning textiles exhibit rapid and intense burning, are dangerously flammable and shall not be used for clothing. A plain surface fabric is Class 3 when the time of flame spread is less than 3.5 seconds.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the only class the Standard bars from clothing. The prohibition language — \"shall not be used for clothing\" — appears here and nowhere else in § 1610.4. Plain-surface and raised-surface fabrics are classified by different tests, so a burn-time figure means nothing without the surface it belongs to.","instrument":{"name":"US Clothing Textile Flammability (FF 3-71) — 16 CFR Part 1610","short_name":"US Clothing Textile Flammability","citation":"16 CFR Part 1610","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-clothing-textile-flammability-ff-3-71-16-cfr-part-1610/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1610"}},{"summary":"The rules and regulations in this part are applicable to ALL standards issued under the Flammable Fabrics Act.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","carpets"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This Part sits behind every FFA standard this register holds — clothing textiles (1610), vinyl film (1611), children's sleepwear (1615, 1616), carpets (1630, 1631), mattresses (1632, 1633) and upholstered furniture (1640). A supplier reading any one of those has not met the guaranty rules that apply across all of them.","instrument":{"name":"US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules — 16 CFR Part 1608","short_name":"US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules","citation":"16 CFR Part 1608","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-flammable-fabrics-act-general-rules-16-cfr-part-1608/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1608"}},{"summary":"A guaranty furnished under section 8 of the Flammable Fabrics Act by a person who is NOT a resident of the United States may not be relied upon as a bar to prosecution under section 7 of the Act for a violation of section 3.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","carpets"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The single most consequential sentence in this Part for a supplier outside the United States. A guaranty issued by a foreign mill does NOT protect the US buyer who relies on it, so the document a supplier believes it is providing has no protective effect across the border. This is why US importers ask for test reports rather than accepting a supplier guaranty, and the reason is legal rather than commercial distrust.","instrument":{"name":"US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules — 16 CFR Part 1608","short_name":"US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules","citation":"16 CFR Part 1608","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-flammable-fabrics-act-general-rules-16-cfr-part-1608/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1608"}},{"summary":"Any person RESIDING IN THE UNITED STATES may file a continuing guaranty under section 8 of the Act with the Office of the Secretary of the Commission, applicable to any product, fabric or related material they market or handle. It must be fully executed in duplicate, each copy acknowledged before a notary public. To remain in effect it must be renewed every three years, and at any other time a change occurs in the legal business status of the person filing it.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","carpets"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Read with § 1608.4 this closes the door twice on a non-resident: the continuing-guaranty route is open only to a person residing in the United States, and a guaranty furnished by a non-resident is no bar to prosecution anyway. The three-year clock and the change-of-status trigger are independent — a restructuring resets it regardless of when the last renewal fell.","instrument":{"name":"US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules — 16 CFR Part 1608","short_name":"US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules","citation":"16 CFR Part 1608","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-flammable-fabrics-act-general-rules-16-cfr-part-1608/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1608"}},{"summary":"A person who has filed a continuing guaranty must promptly advise the Commission in writing of any change in the legal status of the guarantor or in the address of the guarantor's principal office and place of business. No representation or suggestion may be made, in advertising or otherwise marketing or handling products subject to the Act, that the Act, the Government or any branch of it guarantees in any manner that a product, fabric or related material conforms to a flammability standard in effect under the Act.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles","carpets"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Two duties recorded together because both are about what the paperwork may be made to say. The notification duty is continuous rather than periodic — \"promptly\", on any change. And § 1608.6 bars marketing that implies government endorsement of conformity, which reaches phrasing like \"CPSC approved\" or \"government guaranteed\" on a spec sheet or listing.","instrument":{"name":"US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules — 16 CFR Part 1608","short_name":"US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules","citation":"16 CFR Part 1608","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-flammable-fabrics-act-general-rules-16-cfr-part-1608/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1608"}},{"summary":"Every fur product, except those exempted under § 301.39, must be labelled AND invoiced in conformity with the Act and these rules. Every fur, except those exempted, must be invoiced in conformity with them. Any advertising of fur products or furs, except those exempted, must also conform.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","clothing_accessories","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Three distinct duties, and the invoice one has no equivalent in the wool or textile-fibre regimes this register already holds. A fur or fur product moving business-to-business, with no consumer label anywhere in the transaction, is still inside this Part through the invoicing duty. Advertising is named separately again. All three duties are subject to the exemptions at § 301.39, which is not recorded here.","instrument":{"name":"US Fur Products Labeling — 16 CFR Part 301","short_name":"US Fur Products Labeling","citation":"16 CFR Part 301","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-fur-products-labeling-16-cfr-part-301/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-301"}},{"summary":"The animal name used in labelling, invoicing and advertising must be the applicable name from the \"Name\" column of the Fur Products Name Guide at § 301.0. The scientific names in the Order, Family and Genus-Species columns are furnished for animal identification only and must not be used. Where a Name Guide entry consists of two separate words, the second word must precede the first — \"Fox, Black\" is disclosed as \"Black Fox\".","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","clothing_accessories","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The name is prescribed rather than chosen, and the word-order rule is the trap: the Guide is printed in an index order that must be reversed on the label. A supplier transcribing the entry as printed produces a non-conforming description while appearing to have copied the official source exactly.","instrument":{"name":"US Fur Products Labeling — 16 CFR Part 301","short_name":"US Fur Products Labeling","citation":"16 CFR Part 301","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-fur-products-labeling-16-cfr-part-301/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-301"}},{"summary":"No trade name, coined name, or other name or word describing a fur as being the fur of an animal that is in fact fictitious or non-existent may be used in labelling, invoicing or advertising of a fur or fur product.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","clothing_accessories","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Aimed at invented species names used as marketing — the prohibition reaches trade names and coined names, not merely false claims about a real animal. It applies across all three surfaces: label, invoice and advertising.","instrument":{"name":"US Fur Products Labeling — 16 CFR Part 301","short_name":"US Fur Products Labeling","citation":"16 CFR Part 301","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-fur-products-labeling-16-cfr-part-301/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-301"}},{"summary":"For furs imported into the United States, the country of origin must be set out as part of the required information in invoicing and advertising. For fur products imported, or made from imported furs, the country of origin of the furs must be set out in labelling, invoicing and advertising. The country of origin is the country in which the animal producing the fur was raised or, if in a feral state, was taken. Colonies, possessions and protectorates outside the boundaries of the mother country count as separate countries.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["apparel","clothing_accessories","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Origin is WHERE THE ANIMAL LIVED, not where the pelt was dressed, dyed or made up — which is the answer most supply chains have to hand and is the wrong one. Note also that the disclosure surfaces differ: a raw fur discloses on invoice and advertising, while a fur PRODUCT discloses on the label as well.","instrument":{"name":"US Fur Products Labeling — 16 CFR Part 301","short_name":"US Fur Products Labeling","citation":"16 CFR Part 301","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-fur-products-labeling-16-cfr-part-301/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-301"}},{"summary":"Every textile fibre product, except those exempted or excluded under section 12 of the Act, must be labelled or invoiced in conformity with the Act and these regulations, and any advertising of such a product must conform to them as well.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Products required to be labelled under the Wool Products Labeling Act are governed by that Act instead. The record carries the general duty the part imposes. It does not enumerate the individual disclosures, exemptions and test conditions, which run to dozens of sections in the part itself.","instrument":{"name":"Rules and Regulations Under the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act","short_name":"US Textile Fiber Products Identification","citation":"16 CFR Part 303","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-textile-fiber-products-identification-16-cfr-part-303/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/part-303"}},{"summary":"The required label must be affixed securely to each textile product, and where required to its package, conspicuously and durably enough to remain attached through distribution, sale and resale until the product is delivered to the ultimate consumer.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"","instrument":{"name":"Rules and Regulations Under the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act","short_name":"US Textile Fiber Products Identification","citation":"16 CFR Part 303","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-textile-fiber-products-identification-16-cfr-part-303/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/part-303"}},{"summary":"The label must disclose the generic names and percentages by weight of the constituent fibres present in amounts of five percent or more, excluding permissive ornamentation, in order of predominance by weight with any quantity designated as other fibre appearing last; the name or Commission-issued registered identification number of the manufacturer or of a person marketing or handling the product; and the name of the country where the product was processed or manufactured. All required information must be clearly legible, conspicuous and readily accessible to the prospective purchaser, and every part of the fibre content information must appear in type of equal size and conspicuousness.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Fibres present below five percent are designated as other fibre unless they have a definite functional significance at the amount present, which section 303.3 governs. The country named is the country of processing or manufacture as provided for in section 303.33, not the country of sale. The required information may share a label with the care label required by 16 CFR part 423.","instrument":{"name":"Rules and Regulations Under the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act","short_name":"US Textile Fiber Products Identification","citation":"16 CFR Part 303","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-textile-fiber-products-identification-16-cfr-part-303/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/part-303"}},{"summary":"The material covered is nonrigid, unsupported vinyl plastic film — transparent, translucent or opaque, whether plain, embossed, moulded or otherwise surface treated.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["coated_fabrics","apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"\"Nonrigid, unsupported\" is doing the work: a film laminated to a carrier fabric is supported, and § 1611.34 decides which standard then applies. Surface treatment does not take material out of scope — embossed and moulded are named expressly.","instrument":{"name":"US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability — 16 CFR Part 1611","short_name":"US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability","citation":"16 CFR Part 1611","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-vinyl-plastic-film-flammability-16-cfr-part-1611/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1611"}},{"summary":"The rate of burning must not exceed 1.2 inches per second, judged by the average of five determinations lengthwise and five transverse to the direction of processing, when tested with the SPI flammability tester by the method in § 1611.4.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["coated_fabrics","apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"A burn RATE, where every other Flammable Fabrics Act standard in this register measures a burn TIME in seconds (16 CFR 1610) or a char LENGTH (1615, 1616, 1630, 1631). The figures are not comparable across standards and should not be read across.","instrument":{"name":"US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability — 16 CFR Part 1611","short_name":"US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability","citation":"16 CFR Part 1611","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-vinyl-plastic-film-flammability-16-cfr-part-1611/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1611"}},{"summary":"The two averages are assessed separately: compute the average burn rate from five specimens burned transverse to the direction of processing and, separately, from five burned lengthwise. If EITHER average exceeds 1.2 inches per second, the test result is a failure. No article of wearing apparel or fabric subject to the Act may be marketed or handled if, tested under section 4(a), it is so highly flammable as to be dangerous when worn.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["coated_fabrics","apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Averaging all ten specimens together would pass material that fails — a directional weakness is exactly what the split is designed to catch, and film has a direction of processing by definition. The marketing prohibition uses the same \"marketed or handled\" wording as § 1610.32, so it reaches goods moving through a chain before any consumer sale.","instrument":{"name":"US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability — 16 CFR Part 1611","short_name":"US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability","citation":"16 CFR Part 1611","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-vinyl-plastic-film-flammability-16-cfr-part-1611/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1611"}},{"summary":"Only the uncovered or exposed part of an article of wearing apparel is tested. Where the outer layer of plastic film or plastic-coated fabric of a multilayer fabric separates readily from the other layers, the outer layer is tested under Part 1611. Where the outer layer adheres to all or a portion of one or more underlying layers, the multilayered fabric may be tested under either Part 1611 or Part 1610, the Standard for the Flammability of Clothing Textiles.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["coated_fabrics","apparel","textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"This is the provision that connects the record to 16 CFR Part 1610, already held here. For a coated or laminated fabric the applicable standard is decided by whether the coating SEPARATES READILY — a construction question answered at the laminator, not a paperwork one. A supplier of coated fabric reading either Part alone cannot tell which applies to their goods. Note also that Part 1615 supersedes BOTH 1610 and 1611 for children's sleepwear in sizes 0-6X.","instrument":{"name":"US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability — 16 CFR Part 1611","short_name":"US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability","citation":"16 CFR Part 1611","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-vinyl-plastic-film-flammability-16-cfr-part-1611/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-1611"}},{"summary":"Each and every wool product subject to the Act must be marked by a stamp, tag, label or other means of identification, in conformity with the Act and the rules and regulations under it.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Wool products carry their own labelling regime separate from the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act rules at Part 303. Meeting Part 303 does not discharge this.","instrument":{"name":"US Wool Products Labeling — 16 CFR Part 300","short_name":"US Wool Products Labeling","citation":"16 CFR Part 300","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-wool-products-labeling-16-cfr-part-300/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-300"}},{"summary":"The word \"all\" or the term \"100%\" may be used with a correct fiber name only where the fabric or product is composed wholly of one kind of fiber. Where the product is composed wholly of one fiber except for fiber ornamentation not exceeding 5%, those terms may still be used provided they are immediately followed by the phrase \"exclusive of ornamentation\" or a phrase of like meaning.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"The 5 % allowance is conditional on the qualifying phrase, and the rule requires it IMMEDIATELY after the term. A label reading \"100% Wool\" on a garment with 4 % ornamentation is not saved by the allowance — the allowance is what permits \"100% Wool — Exclusive of Ornamentation\", not what permits omitting it.","instrument":{"name":"US Wool Products Labeling — 16 CFR Part 300","short_name":"US Wool Products Labeling","citation":"16 CFR Part 300","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-wool-products-labeling-16-cfr-part-300/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-300"}},{"summary":"The terms \"virgin\" or \"new\", used to describe a wool product or any fiber or part of it, may not be used where the product, fiber or part so described is not composed wholly of new or virgin fiber that has never been reclaimed from any spun, woven, knitted, felted, braided, bonded or otherwise manufactured or used product.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"An absolute test with no tolerance: \"wholly\" of never-reclaimed fibre. The list of what counts as reclaimed is deliberately wide — spun, woven, knitted, felted, braided, bonded or otherwise manufactured — so mill waste that has been through any of those processes defeats the term. It also applies to a PART of a product, so a virgin claim on one component is testable on that component.","instrument":{"name":"US Wool Products Labeling — 16 CFR Part 300","short_name":"US Wool Products Labeling","citation":"16 CFR Part 300","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-wool-products-labeling-16-cfr-part-300/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-300"}},{"summary":"Country of origin labelling follows four cases. An imported wool product must be labelled with the country where it was processed or manufactured. A product completely made in the United States of US-made materials must use \"Made in U.S.A.\" or a clear equivalent. A product made in the United States wholly or partly of imported materials must disclose those facts, for example \"Made in USA of imported fabric\". A product partially manufactured abroad and partially in the United States must state on a label the manufacturing process in the foreign country and in the USA.","confidence":"confirmed","status":"in_force","obligated_party":"manufacturer_importer_seller","company_size_threshold":"","product_scope":["textiles","apparel","home_textiles"],"market_scope":["US"],"hs_codes":[],"entry_into_force":"","compliance_deadline":"","penalties":"","notes":"Not \"say where it was made\" — four distinct rules, and the third and fourth are the ones a cut-and-sew operation actually falls into. A garment sewn in the USA from imported fabric may not simply say \"Made in USA\"; the imported materials must be disclosed. Mail order advertising has its own rule at § 300.25a, which is not recorded here.","instrument":{"name":"US Wool Products Labeling — 16 CFR Part 300","short_name":"US Wool Products Labeling","citation":"16 CFR Part 300","jurisdiction":"US","record":"https://www.textileschool.com/regulations/us-wool-products-labeling-16-cfr-part-300/","official_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-300"}}],"note":"Every obligation carries a confidence marker. \"confirmed\" is settled law; \"scheduled\", \"proposed\" and \"indicative\" are not, and dates on them move. Do not repeat a date from this API without its marker."}