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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 Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Textile Mill Effluent Guidelines 40 CFR Part 410 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Textile Mill Effluent Guidelines 40 CFR Part 410 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Textile Mill Effluent Guidelines 40 CFR Part 410 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Textile Fiber Products Identification 16 CFR Part 303 US

  The label must disclose the generic names and percentages by weight of the constituent fibres present in amounts of five percent or more, excluding permissive ornamentation, in order of predominance by weight with any quantity designated as other fibre appearing last; the name or Commission-issued registered identification number of the manufacturer or of a person marketing or handling the product; and the name of the country where the product was processed or manufactured. All required information must be clearly legible, conspicuous and readily accessible to the prospective purchaser, and every part of the fibre content information must appear in type of equal size and conspicuousness.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Fibres present below five percent are designated as other fibre unless they have a definite functional significance at the amount present, which section 303.3 governs. The country named is the country of processing or manufacture as provided for in section 303.33, not the country of sale. The required information may share a label with the care label required by 16 CFR part 423.

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  US Small Carpet Flammability 16 CFR Part 1631 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Small Carpet Flammability 16 CFR Part 1631 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Mattress Open Flame 16 CFR Part 1633 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Mattress Open Flame 16 CFR Part 1633 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Mattress Cigarette Ignition 16 CFR Part 1632 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Mattress Cigarette Ignition 16 CFR Part 1632 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

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

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  US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules 16 CFR Part 1608 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This Part sits behind every FFA standard this register holds — clothing textiles (1610), vinyl film (1611), children's sleepwear (1615, 1616), carpets (1630, 1631), mattresses (1632, 1633) and upholstered furniture (1640). A supplier reading any one of those has not met the guaranty rules that apply across all of them.

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  US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules 16 CFR Part 1608 US

  A guaranty furnished under section 8 of the Flammable Fabrics Act by a person who is NOT a resident of the United States may not be relied upon as a bar to prosecution under section 7 of the Act for a violation of section 3.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The single most consequential sentence in this Part for a supplier outside the United States. A guaranty issued by a foreign mill does NOT protect the US buyer who relies on it, so the document a supplier believes it is providing has no protective effect across the border. This is why US importers ask for test reports rather than accepting a supplier guaranty, and the reason is legal rather than commercial distrust.

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  US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules 16 CFR Part 1608 US

  Any person RESIDING IN THE UNITED STATES may file a continuing guaranty under section 8 of the Act with the Office of the Secretary of the Commission, applicable to any product, fabric or related material they market or handle. It must be fully executed in duplicate, each copy acknowledged before a notary public. To remain in effect it must be renewed every three years, and at any other time a change occurs in the legal business status of the person filing it.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Read with § 1608.4 this closes the door twice on a non-resident: the continuing-guaranty route is open only to a person residing in the United States, and a guaranty furnished by a non-resident is no bar to prosecution anyway. The three-year clock and the change-of-status trigger are independent — a restructuring resets it regardless of when the last renewal fell.

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  US Flammable Fabrics Act General Rules 16 CFR Part 1608 US

  A person who has filed a continuing guaranty must promptly advise the Commission in writing of any change in the legal status of the guarantor or in the address of the guarantor's principal office and place of business. No representation or suggestion may be made, in advertising or otherwise marketing or handling products subject to the Act, that the Act, the Government or any branch of it guarantees in any manner that a product, fabric or related material conforms to a flammability standard in effect under the Act.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Two duties recorded together because both are about what the paperwork may be made to say. The notification duty is continuous rather than periodic — "promptly", on any change. And § 1608.6 bars marketing that implies government endorsement of conformity, which reaches phrasing like "CPSC approved" or "government guaranteed" on a spec sheet or listing.

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  US Crib Mattress Safety 16 CFR Part 1241 US

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

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The substantive requirements are in the ASTM specification rather than in the CFR text, and the part names the exact approved edition. The record carries the general duty the part imposes. It does not enumerate the individual disclosures, exemptions and test conditions, which run to dozens of sections in the part itself.

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  US 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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  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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  Canada Mattresses SOR/2016-183 CA

  When a mattress is tested in accordance with CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.7-2023, Textile test methods — Combustion resistance of mattresses — Cigarette test, published in January 2023, no more than one test specimen may exhibit either melting or charring of the surface extending more than 50 mm in any horizontal direction from the nearest point of the original location of the test cigarette, or continuing combustion in the mattress assembly 10 minutes after the cigarette has extinguished.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Two independent failure conditions — the 50 mm spread and the 10-minute continuing combustion — and the allowance is at most ONE specimen exhibiting either. The cited standard is a FIXED EDITION, No. 27.7-2023 published in January 2023, unlike the "as amended from time to time" incorporation used by SOR/2016-194 and the playpen and crib rules in this register. One duty moves with the standard and this one does not. CGSB standards cannot be linked from this register: there is no per-standard page that resolves — scc.ca returns 404 to its own search and publications.gc.ca returns 404 and disallows its search paths.

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  Canada Mattresses SOR/2016-183 CA

  A mattress means an item intended, promoted or normally used for the purpose of being slept on that contains resilient material enclosed within a ticking. Mattress pads are excluded from the definition.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The test is "resilient material enclosed within a ticking", and the purpose limb is written three ways — intended, promoted OR normally used — so marketing can bring a product in even where the maker did not design it to be slept on. Note the contrast with the US treatment: 16 CFR 1632 covers mattresses AND mattress pads together, while this definition excludes pads.

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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.

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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

  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.

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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

  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.

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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

  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.

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

  The same prohibition applies to any product made of fabric or related material that fails to conform to an applicable standard or regulation and that has been shipped or received in commerce.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Subsection (b) reaches the converter and the cut-and-sew operation rather than the mill: the article is caught because of the cloth it is made from, whoever wove that cloth. A finished garment can be nonconforming without its maker having tested anything.

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  Canada Corded Window Coverings SOR/2019-97 CA

  A reachable cord with one free end must not exceed 22 cm in length, and a reachable cord with no free end must not exceed 22 cm between two consecutive contact points, in each case when pulled in any direction by the gradual application of force attaining 35 N.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Two geometries, one limit. Reachable is defined as any part of the cord a person can touch once the covering is installed, in any position from fully open to fully closed - so the test is run against the installed article, not the component. The length is measured while the cord is pulled in any direction by the gradual application of force attaining 35 N, not at rest. A braid that elongates under that load spends part of its 22 cm on stretch.

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  Canada Corded Window Coverings SOR/2019-97 CA

  If a reachable cord is pulled in any direction by the gradual application of force attaining 35 N, the perimeter of any loop - whether it already existed, was created by the pull, or was enlarged by it - must not exceed 44 cm.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  A loop is defined as a shape the majority of which is formed by a reachable cord and which creates a completely bounded opening. Created or enlarged by the pull is the operative phrase: an assembly with no loop at rest can fail this section if one appears under load.

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  Canada Corded Window Coverings SOR/2019-97 CA

  Where two reachable cords each having one free end can be connected to one another end to end after each has been pulled in any direction by force attaining 35 N, the resulting cord must not exceed 22 cm in length and the perimeter of the loop created must not exceed 44 cm.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Two cords that each pass sections 5 and 7 on their own can fail here together. The section anticipates the article being defeated rather than merely used, which is why it asks what happens if somebody ties two compliant cords into one.

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  Canada Corded Window Coverings SOR/2019-97 CA

  A cord that is not reachable must remain unreachable, whether the covering is fully opened, fully closed or in any position in between, throughout the useful life of the covering.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  A durability requirement rather than a dimensional one, and the only clause here with a time horizon. A cord concealed behind a component that wears, fatigues or is removed in service has not remained unreachable, so the enclosure is part of the specification and not packaging.

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  Canada Corded Window Coverings SOR/2019-97 CA

  Every part of a corded window covering that is accessible to a child and small enough to be totally enclosed in the small parts cylinder illustrated in Schedule 1 must be affixed so that it does not become detached when subjected to a force of 90 N applied in any direction.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Reaches cord ends, tassels, toggles, beads and any trim on the assembly. The 90 N here is a detachment force and is unrelated to the 35 N used for the cord length tests; the two are easy to confuse and answer different questions.

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  Canada Corded Window Coverings SOR/2019-97 CA

  Every external component of a corded window covering must not contain more than 90 mg/kg of lead, when tested in accordance with the OECD Principles of Good Laboratory Practice.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  External component, not surface coating, so a dyed or pigmented cord is within scope on its own account. The limit happens to share the number 90 with the detachment force in section 2 and has nothing to do with it.

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  Canada Corded Window Coverings SOR/2019-97 CA

  Information appearing on a corded window covering, accompanying one, or in any advertisement for one must not make any direct or indirect reference to the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act or to these Regulations.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  A prohibition on the compliance claim itself, and the reverse of what every labelling instrument in this register otherwise rewards. Indirect reference is included, so a phrase that gestures at federal approval without naming the Act is caught. Section 10 separately requires the information that IS mandated to appear in both English and French, legibly, in a colour contrasting sharply with its background.

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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.

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  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.

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  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 Textile Flammability SOR/2016-194 CA

  The flame spread time for bedding without a raised fibre surface, or bedding with a raised fibre surface that exhibits ignition or fusion of its base fibres, must be greater than 7 seconds. Flame spread time must be determined according to the Canadian General Standards Board standard CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.5, Textile Test Methods: Flame Resistance — 45° Angle Test — One-Second Flame Impingement, as amended from time to time.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Bedding is held to a single 7-second threshold across both surface conditions, where general textiles are split 3.5 / 4 — so bedding is the stricter case and the surface distinction stops mattering. The method is incorporated "as amended from time to time", so the duty follows the current edition. CGSB standards cannot be linked from this register: there is no per-standard page that resolves — scc.ca returns 404 to its own search and publications.gc.ca returns 404 and disallows its search paths.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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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  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.

• no date set

  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.