Textile regulations in the United States

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  US Wool Products Labeling 16 CFR Part 300 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Wool Products Labeling 16 CFR Part 300 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Wool Products Labeling 16 CFR Part 300 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Wool Products Labeling 16 CFR Part 300 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability 16 CFR Part 1611 US

  The material covered is nonrigid, unsupported vinyl plastic film — transparent, translucent or opaque, whether plain, embossed, moulded or otherwise surface treated.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  "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.

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  US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability 16 CFR Part 1611 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability 16 CFR Part 1611 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability 16 CFR Part 1611 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

  All upholstered furniture as defined in § 1640.3, manufactured, imported or reupholstered on or after the effective date, is subject to this part, and all such furniture must comply with the California standard, Technical Bulletin TB 117-2013, incorporated by reference at § 1640.6.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This Part sets no test of its own — it adopts a STATE agency's technical bulletin as the federal standard, so a supplier reading Part 1640 for a procedure finds a citation. Scope reaches REUPHOLSTERY on the same terms as manufacture and import, which the word "manufacture" alone would not suggest. The substance is California Technical Bulletin TB 117-2013, "Requirements, Test Procedure and Apparatus for Testing the Smolder Resistance of Materials Used in Upholstered Furniture", published June 2013 and incorporated by reference at § 1640.6.

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

  Each manufacturer of a product subject to the California standard must include the statement "Complies with U.S. CPSC requirements for upholstered furniture flammability" on a permanent label located on the product. That label is considered to be the certification that the product complies with the standard.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The wording is prescribed verbatim and the label IS the certification — there is no separate certificate to issue. The label must be PERMANENT and on the product, so a hangtag or carton marking does not discharge it.

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

  A fabric, related material or product to which the California standard applies is not subject to section 14(a) of the Consumer Product Safety Act with respect to that standard.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This disapplies the usual CPSA certification machinery for this standard, which is why § 1640.4(b) has to make the label do the work. A supplier who produces a general conformity certificate and omits the permanent label has satisfied a requirement that does not apply and missed the one that does.

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

  No State or political subdivision of a State may establish or continue in effect any provision of a flammability law, regulation, code, standard or requirement designed to protect against the occurrence of fire, or to slow or prevent the spread of fire, with respect to upholstered furniture — except as provided in sections 1374, 1374.2 and 1374.3 of title 4 of the California Code of Regulations (other than subsections (b) and (c) of section 1374) or in the California standard itself.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This inverts the usual state/federal question. A supplier ordinarily asks whether a state rule is stricter than the federal one; here the federal rule IS the California one and other states are shut out of the field entirely. Recorded as an obligation rather than background because it tells a supplier which enquiries they do NOT have to make. § 1640.5(c) preserves certain other state law, which is not recorded here.

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  US Textile Mill Effluent Guidelines 40 CFR Part 410 US

  This Part applies to any textile mill or textile processing facility which discharges or may discharge process wastewater pollutants to the waters of the United States, or which introduces or may introduce process wastewater pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Discharging to a municipal treatment works does NOT put a mill outside this Part — the applicability clause names that case expressly. What changes is which standards apply, not whether any do. "May discharge" also brings a facility in before any discharge has occurred.

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  US Textile Mill Effluent Guidelines 40 CFR Part 410 US

  The Part divides textile mills into nine subcategories, each with its own subpart and its own limitations: wool scouring; wool finishing; low water use processing; woven fabric finishing; knit fabric finishing; carpet finishing; stock and yarn finishing; nonwoven manufacturing; and felted fabric processing. Each subpart states the types of mill to which it applies — for example the wool scouring subpart covers process wastewater discharges from wool scouring, topmaking and general cleaning of raw wool.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  There is no single "textile mill effluent limit". A mill running more than one process may sit in more than one subcategory, and the applicability clauses are written around PROCESSES rather than around finished products, so the classification follows what the plant does rather than what it makes.

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  US Textile Mill Effluent Guidelines 40 CFR Part 410 US

  Within each subcategory the Part sets five distinct standards: effluent limitations attainable by the best practicable control technology currently available (BPT) and by the best available technology economically achievable (BAT) for existing direct dischargers; new source performance standards (NSPS); and pretreatment standards for existing sources (PSES) and for new sources (PSNS) where wastewater is introduced to a publicly owned treatment works.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  New and existing sources are held to different standards, so an expansion or a rebuild can move a mill from one column to another. Which numbers apply is a two-axis lookup: the subcategory the operation falls into, crossed with whether the mill is an existing or new source and whether it discharges directly or to a POTW. The limits themselves are per-subcategory tables in kg per 1,000 kg of production and are not reproduced here.

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  US Textile Fiber Products Identification 16 CFR Part 303 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Textile Fiber Products Identification 16 CFR Part 303 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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  US Textile Fiber Products Identification 16 CFR Part 303 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Small Carpet Flammability 16 CFR Part 1631 US

  This Standard applies to all types of small carpets and rugs used as floor covering materials, regardless of method of fabrication and whether made of natural or synthetic fibers or films, combinations of these or substitutes for them. A specimen passes if the charred portion does not extend to within 2.54 cm (1.0 in) of the edge of the hole in the flattening frame at any point, and at least seven of the eight specimens must meet that criterion for the product to conform.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  One-of-a-kind small carpets and rugs — an antique, an Oriental or a hide — may be excluded under conditions established by the Commission. The test method and both criteria are identical to the companion Standard: a specimen passes if the charred portion does not extend to within 2.54 cm (1.0 in) of the edge of the hole in the flattening frame, and at least seven of eight specimens must pass. Which Part applies changes the certification, not the performance required.

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  US Small Carpet Flammability 16 CFR Part 1631 US

  A small carpet or rug is one with NO dimension greater than 1.83 m (6 ft) and an area not greater than 2.23 m² (24 sq ft). Products such as carpet squares with dimensions smaller than these, but intended to be assembled on installation into assemblies which may have larger dimensions, are EXCLUDED from this definition and fall under the Standard for the surface flammability of carpets and rugs at Part 1630.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The two Parts settle the carpet-square question in opposite directions and both say so in their own definitions — this one excludes and Part 1630 includes. A supplier reading only the Part that matches the physical tile in front of them lands in the wrong Standard; the intended installed assembly decides.

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  US OCPSF Effluent Guidelines 40 CFR Part 414 US

  Process wastewater discharges from establishments manufacturing organic chemicals, plastics and synthetic fibres covered by the part's subparts are subject to its effluent limitations and pretreatment standards.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This is the upstream of a synthetic spinner rather than the spinner itself: the rayon, other fibres and thermoplastic resin subparts are where polyester and viscose production sit. 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.

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  US Mattress Open Flame 16 CFR Part 1633 US

  All mattress sets manufactured, imported or renovated on or after the effective date must meet this standard before sale or introduction into commerce. The requirements apply to each manufacturer of mattress sets manufactured for sale in commerce. One-of-a-kind mattress sets may be exempted from testing under § 1633.13(c).

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The scope reaches RENOVATED mattress sets on the same terms as new ones, which the word "manufacture" alone would not suggest — a renovator is inside this standard. Parts 1632 and 1633 are not alternatives. 1632 measures resistance to a lighted cigarette in char length; 1633 measures the size of the fire a mattress set generates over thirty minutes in heat release. Passing one says nothing about the other.

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  US Mattress Open Flame 16 CFR Part 1633 US

  When tested under § 1633.7 a mattress set must comply with both criteria: the peak rate of heat release must not exceed 200 kilowatts at any time within the thirty minute test, and the total heat release must not exceed 15 megajoules for the first ten minutes. A mattress labelled for sale with a foundation must be tested with that foundation; one labelled for sale without a foundation is tested alone.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Two criteria, both required — a peak limit and a cumulative one, and a set can satisfy either alone while failing the pair. § 1633.3(c) is the provision suppliers trip over: the LABELLING decision determines the test article, so changing whether a mattress is sold with a foundation changes what has to be tested.

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  US Mattress Cigarette Ignition 16 CFR Part 1632 US

  This standard prescribes testing of prototype designs of mattresses and mattress pads before the sale or introduction in commerce of any mattress or mattress pad subject to it, to determine ignition resistance when exposed to a lighted cigarette. Each manufacturer required to perform prototype testing must perform it with acceptable results before selling in commerce.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  A PRE-MARKET duty on the prototype design, discharged before the first unit ships rather than sampled afterwards. Parts 1632 and 1633 are not alternatives. 1632 measures resistance to a lighted cigarette in char length; 1633 measures the size of the fire a mattress set generates over thirty minutes in heat release. Passing one says nothing about the other.

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  US Mattress Cigarette Ignition 16 CFR Part 1632 US

  The test exposes the surface to lighted cigarettes in a draft-protected environment at smooth, tape edge and quilted or tufted locations where they exist, and also conducts a two-sheet test with burning cigarettes placed between sheets. An individual cigarette test location passes if the char length is not more than 2 inches (5.1 cm) in any direction from the nearest point of the cigarette.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The named locations are construction features — tape edge, quilting, tufting — so the test follows how the mattress is built rather than sampling a flat area. The two-sheet condition tests the cigarette between bedding rather than on the bare surface, which is the realistic case.

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  US Leather Tanning Effluent Guidelines 40 CFR Part 425 US

  This Part applies to any leather tanning and finishing facility which discharges or may discharge process wastewater pollutants to the waters of the United States, or which introduces or may introduce process wastewater pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Wording identical in structure to the textile mill Part at 40 CFR 410: discharging to a municipal treatment works does not put a tannery outside this Part, it changes which standards apply. "May discharge" brings a facility in before any discharge has occurred.

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  US Leather Tanning Effluent Guidelines 40 CFR Part 425 US

  The Part divides tanneries into subcategories by PROCESS ROUTE, each with its own subpart and limitations: hair pulp, chrome tan, retan-wet finish; hair save, chrome tan, retan-wet finish; retan-wet finish-sides; no beamhouse; through-the-blue; shearling; pigskin; and retan-wet finish-splits. Each subpart states the operations it covers — the hair pulp subcategory, for example, applies to a tannery processing raw or cured cattle or cattle-like hides into finished leather by chemically dissolving the hide hair, chrome tanning and retan-wet finishing.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Classification follows how the tannery UNHAIRS AND TANS, not what leather it sells — a tannery is in the hair pulp subcategory or the hair save one according to whether it dissolves the hair or recovers it. "No beamhouse" and "through-the-blue" are likewise process descriptions. A facility running more than one route may fall into more than one subcategory.

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  US Leather Tanning Effluent Guidelines 40 CFR Part 425 US

  Effluent limitations are set per subcategory and expressed in kg per 1,000 kg — pounds per 1,000 pounds — of RAW MATERIAL, that is the hide as received by the tannery. The parameters limited include BOD5, total suspended solids, oil and grease, total chromium, and pH within a stated range. Existing point sources must achieve the best practicable control technology limitations for their subpart except as provided in 40 CFR 125.30 to 125.32.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The denominator is RAW MATERIAL, the hide as received — not finished leather. Yield does not help: a tannery that wastes less hide gets no extra headroom, because the divisor is what came in. TOTAL CHROMIUM appears here as a discharge limit, which is a different duty from the REACH Annex XVII restriction on chromium VI in leather articles recorded elsewhere in this register — same metal, different point in the process, different obligation. The figures quoted in the evidence note are ONE subcategory's BPT row, given to show the table's shape; every subpart has its own, and this record does not reproduce them.

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  US Leather Guides 16 CFR Part 24 US

  These Guides apply to the manufacture, sale, distribution, marketing or advertising of all kinds of leather or simulated-leather industry products, enumerated in § 24.0(a) — including trunks, suitcases, travelling bags, brief cases, billfolds, wallets, key cases, coin purses, handbags, shoulder bags, purses, footwear, and belts when not sold as part of a garment, and similar articles.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Scope is an enumerated list, and belts carry a condition on their face: in scope only "when not sold as part of a garment". The same belt is inside these Guides sold alone and outside them supplied with a coat. Advertising is named alongside manufacture and sale, so the Guides reach marketing copy directly.

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  US Leather Guides 16 CFR Part 24 US

  These Guides are administrative interpretations of laws administered by the Federal Trade Commission, addressing the application of section 5 of the FTC Act to industry products, and providing the basis for voluntary compliance. Conduct inconsistent with the positions articulated in the Guides may result in corrective action by the Commission under section 5.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Recorded as its own obligation because the legal character of this Part decides what a supplier is arguing about. There is no offence of breaching a Guide. The exposure is section 5 of the FTC Act, and the Guides are the Commission's published view of what section 5 means for these products.

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  US Leather Guides 16 CFR Part 24 US

  It is unfair or deceptive to misrepresent, directly or by implication, the kind, grade, quality, quantity, material content, thickness, finish, serviceability, durability, price, origin, size, weight, ease of cleaning, construction, manufacture, processing, distribution, or any other material aspect of an industry product.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The list is long and closes with "any other material aspect", so it is illustrative rather than exhaustive. "Directly or by implication" is what reaches imagery, styling and adjacency rather than only stated claims — a product photographed to read as leather can misrepresent without a word being written.

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  US Leather Guides 16 CFR Part 24 US

  It is unfair or deceptive to misrepresent the composition of any industry product or part of it, and to use the unqualified term "leather", or other unqualified terms suggestive of leather, unless the product so described is composed in all substantial parts of leather. Where all or part of a product is made of non-leather material that appears to be leather, that fact or the general nature of the material should be disclosed — for example "Not leather", "Imitation leather", "Simulated leather", "Vinyl", "Vinyl coated fabric" or "Plastic".

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The test is "in all substantial parts", not a majority and not a marketing judgement. For footwear the Guides define three parts in a footnote — the upper, the lining and sock, and the outersole — so a shoe with a leather upper and a synthetic lining does not carry the unqualified term. The disclosure examples are given in the text, which makes them the safe wordings rather than one option among many.

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  US Fur Products Labeling 16 CFR Part 301 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Fur Products Labeling 16 CFR Part 301 US

  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".

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Fur Products Labeling 16 CFR Part 301 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Fur Products Labeling 16 CFR Part 301 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules 16 CFR Part 1608 US

  The rules and regulations in this part are applicable to ALL standards issued under the Flammable Fabrics Act.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules 16 CFR Part 1608 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules 16 CFR Part 1608 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules 16 CFR Part 1608 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Crib Mattress Safety 16 CFR Part 1241 US

  Crib mattresses within the scope of ASTM F2933 — full-size, non-full-size and after-market — must comply with all applicable provisions of ASTM F2933-21, which this part incorporates by reference.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The substantive requirements are in the ASTM specification rather than in the CFR text, and the part names the exact approved edition. 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.

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  US Clothing Textile Flammability 16 CFR Part 1610 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Clothing Textile Flammability 16 CFR Part 1610 US

  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).

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Clothing Textile Flammability 16 CFR Part 1610 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Clothing Textile Flammability 16 CFR Part 1610 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Children's Sleepwear 7-14 16 CFR Part 1616 US

  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).

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Children's Sleepwear 7-14 16 CFR Part 1616 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Children's Sleepwear 0-6X 16 CFR Part 1615 US

  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).

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Children's Sleepwear 0-6X 16 CFR Part 1615 US

  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).

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Carpet Flammability 16 CFR Part 1630 US

  This Standard applies to all types of carpets and rugs used as floor covering materials, regardless of method of fabrication and whether made of natural or synthetic fibers or films, combinations of these or substitutes for them. A specimen passes if the charred portion does not extend to within 2.54 cm (1.0 in) of the edge of the hole in the flattening frame at any point, and at least seven of the eight specimens must meet that criterion for the product to conform.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Fibre-neutral by construction: the scope names natural fibres, synthetic fibres, films, combinations and substitutes, so the material cannot put a floor covering outside the Standard. One-of-a-kind items such as an antique, an Oriental or a hide may be excluded under conditions established by the Commission.

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  US Carpet Flammability 16 CFR Part 1630 US

  A carpet or rug is within this Standard where it has one dimension greater than 1.83 m (6 ft) and a surface area greater than 2.23 m² (24 sq ft). Products such as carpet squares with one dimension less than 1.83 m and a surface area less than 2.23 m², but intended to be assembled on installation into assemblies that may exceed those figures, are INCLUDED in this definition.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Carpet squares are the trap. The tile in a manufacturer's hand is small; the assembly it is designed to become is large, and this Part follows the assembly. The companion small-carpet Standard at Part 1631 excludes them expressly and sends them here, so measuring the product as supplied reaches the wrong Part. The test method and both criteria are identical to the companion Standard: a specimen passes if the charred portion does not extend to within 2.54 cm (1.0 in) of the edge of the hole in the flattening frame, and at least seven of eight specimens must pass. Which Part applies changes the certification, not the performance required.

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  US Care Labeling Rule 16 CFR Part 423 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Care Labeling Rule 16 CFR Part 423 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Care Labeling Rule 16 CFR Part 423 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US Care Labeling Rule 16 CFR Part 423 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US TFPIA 15 U.S.C. 70-70k US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US TFPIA 15 U.S.C. 70-70k US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US TFPIA 15 U.S.C. 70-70k US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US TFPIA 15 U.S.C. 70-70k US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US TFPIA 15 U.S.C. 70-70k US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Responsible Textile Recovery Act California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024) US-CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Responsible Textile Recovery Act California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024) US-CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US FFA 15 U.S.C. 1191-1204 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  US FFA 15 U.S.C. 1191-1204 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  UFLPA Public Law 117-78 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  "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.

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  UFLPA Public Law 117-78 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  UFLPA Public Law 117-78 US

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.