Carpet & rug regulations by market

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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 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 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 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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  Canada Textile Floor Coverings SOR/2016-176 CA

  A textile floor covering intended for indoor use only, or for indoor and outdoor use, that is a carpet tile or has a surface area greater than 2.16 square metres or any linear dimension greater than 1.8 metres, must not reach the cumulative number of specimen failures set out in the last column of Table 1, the Normal Sequential Sampling Plan, of the sampling plans standard when tested as the Regulations prescribe.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This is the only limb of the Regulations that is a performance requirement rather than a disclosure one. The definition at section 1 excludes a one-of-a-kind or Oriental rug, and an underlay, made of textile fibres. Made under section 37 of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, which is already in this register. Section 6 of that Act is what makes a breach of these requirements a prohibition rather than a specification.

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  Canada Textile Floor Coverings SOR/2016-176 CA

  A large textile floor covering intended for outdoor use only, and any textile floor covering with a surface area of 2.16 square metres or less and all linear dimensions of 1.8 metres or less whatever its intended use, may reach the failure threshold, but must then carry a label at the time it is advertised or sold warning that it is flammable and must not be used in locations exposed to open flame or sources of intense heat.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The two warnings differ by one sentence and it matters: the large outdoor-only warning at subsection (2) ends "Do not use indoors", and the small-covering warning at subsection (3) does not, because a small covering that fails may still be sold for indoor use. Both are prescribed in English and French. A small covering may carry either warning. Made under section 37 of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, which is already in this register. Section 6 of that Act is what makes a breach of these requirements a prohibition rather than a specification.

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  Canada Textile Floor Coverings SOR/2016-176 CA

  A textile floor covering that has not been treated with a flame retardant is tested on a sample of 48 specimens, in accordance with the Normal Sequential Sampling Plan of the sampling plans standard and the methenamine tablet test standard.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The standards are named in section 1: the methenamine tablet test is CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.6-2015, the sampling plans standard is CAN/CGSB-4.155-M88 published April 1988 and reaffirmed November 2013, and a separate standard, CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 30.2-M90, governs the removal of non-permanent flame-retardant treatments before a treated covering is tested. None of the four is in this site's standards register. Made under section 37 of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, which is already in this register. Section 6 of that Act is what makes a breach of these requirements a prohibition rather than a specification.

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  Canada Textile Floor Coverings SOR/2016-176 CA

  A required warning must be clearly and prominently displayed, printed in letters that are easily legible and of equal size and prominence, and set apart from any other information or visual images on the label. Where the covering is packaged, the label must be on the package unless it is affixed to the covering and the packaging leaves the warning clearly visible to the consumer.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Section 5 allows an unlabelled covering to be imported solely for resale, provided the importer notifies an inspector on or before the date of importation with their status as importer, the date and place of importation, the nature and quantity of the goods, and the address of the premises where labelling will be done. Made under section 37 of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, which is already in this register. Section 6 of that Act is what makes a breach of these requirements a prohibition rather than a specification.

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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.