Apparel & clothing regulations by market

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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 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 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 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 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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  India Textiles Committee Act Act No. 41 of 1963 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India Textiles Committee Act Act No. 41 of 1963 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India Textiles Committee Act Act No. 41 of 1963 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India Legal Metrology Act No. 1 of 2010 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India Legal Metrology Act No. 1 of 2010 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India Legal Metrology Act No. 1 of 2010 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India Handlooms Reservation Act Act No. 22 of 1985 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India Handlooms Reservation Act Act No. 22 of 1985 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India Handlooms Reservation Act Act No. 22 of 1985 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India BIS Act Act No. 11 of 2016 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India BIS Act Act No. 11 of 2016 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India BIS Act Act No. 11 of 2016 IN

  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).

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  India BIS Act Act No. 11 of 2016 IN

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada Textile Labelling Act R.S.C., 1985, c. T-10 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada Textile Labelling Act R.S.C., 1985, c. T-10 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada Textile Labelling Act R.S.C., 1985, c. T-10 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada Textile Labelling Act R.S.C., 1985, c. T-10 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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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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  Japan Household Goods Quality Labeling Act No. 104 of 1962 (昭和三十七年法律第百四号) JP

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Japan Household Goods Quality Labeling Act No. 104 of 1962 (昭和三十七年法律第百四号) JP

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Japan Household Goods Quality Labeling Act No. 104 of 1962 (昭和三十七年法律第百四号) JP

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Japan Household Goods Quality Labeling Act No. 104 of 1962 (昭和三十七年法律第百四号) JP

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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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.

• no date set

  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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  Canada Lead in Consumer Products SOR/2018-83 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada Lead in Consumer Products SOR/2018-83 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada Textile Labelling C.R.C., c. 1551 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Canada Textile Labelling C.R.C., c. 1551 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada Textile Flammability SOR/2016-194 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Canada Textile Flammability SOR/2016-194 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada CCPSA S.C. 2010, c. 21 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada CCPSA S.C. 2010, c. 21 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Canada CCPSA S.C. 2010, c. 21 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada CCPSA S.C. 2010, c. 21 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Canada CCPSA S.C. 2010, c. 21 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Canada Children's Sleepwear SOR/2016-169 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Canada Children's Sleepwear SOR/2016-169 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

• no date set

  Canada Children's Sleepwear SOR/2016-169 CA

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Both languages are required on the label, not either one.

• no date set

  AU ACL Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2 AU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  AU ACL Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2 AU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  AU ACL Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2 AU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  AU ACL Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2 AU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  AU ACL Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2 AU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  AU ACL Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2 AU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  AU ACL Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2 AU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Japan Harmful Substances in Household Products Act No. 112 of 1973 (昭和四十八年法律第百十二号) JP

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Japan Harmful Substances in Household Products Act No. 112 of 1973 (昭和四十八年法律第百十二号) JP

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  Japan Harmful Substances in Household Products Act No. 112 of 1973 (昭和四十八年法律第百十二号) JP

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  POPs Regulation Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

• no date set

  REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Green Claims Directive COM(2023) 166 final EU

  Substantiation and independent verification of explicit environmental claims before they are made.

  Proposed Draft or consultation stage

  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.

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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.

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  Textile Labelling Regulation Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Textile Labelling Regulation Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Textile Labelling Regulation Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Textile Labelling Regulation Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Textile Labelling Regulation Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Textile Labelling Regulation Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  Textile Labelling Regulation Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  ESPR Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  ESPR Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.

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  ESPR Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 EU

  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.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  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.