Quality inspection department reminds textile companies to pay close attention to new European and American children’s clothing regulations

In recent years, in order to safeguard their own national interests, European and American countries have formulated different safety regulations and guidelines to address the major safety hazards of children’s clothing. For example, the United States has put forward specific requirements for ropes on children’s clothing in the “Safety Specification for Cords on Children’s Tops” ASTMF1816-97 (2004) and the CPSC (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) “Guidelines for Tightening Straps on Children’s Tops”; the European Union The EN14682 standard also clearly stipulates the general requirements for drawstrings or ropes on clothing for children under 14 years of age.
Recently, domestically produced children’s clothing has been frequently recalled by European and American countries on the grounds that drawstrings may cause the risk of children being strangled in the neck. It is urgent to carefully analyze the reasons for recalls and propose corresponding countermeasures. The reason:
The need for foreign countries to protect domestic enterprises. Since the outbreak of the financial crisis, countries such as Europe and the United States have continued to use different forms of trade protection measures to restrict my country’s textile and apparel imports due to their own poor economic conditions and to protect the economic interests of their own textile and apparel companies. Recalls are a type of technical barrier. form, are increasingly being adopted.
Problems with product design for foreign customers. Due to defects in the design of foreign customers’ products, most of our manufacturing companies use OEM production methods. They simply believe that products can be produced in accordance with customer requirements. There is a lack of necessary and sufficient understanding of whether the product design complies with foreign technical regulations. Discrimination ability. In addition, when signing contracts with foreign customers, most companies do not pay attention to making clear agreements on the conformity of the product’s design and the attribution of responsibilities, resulting in losses.
Domestic production enterprises lack awareness of danger. A considerable number of managers and operators of textile production enterprises in my country have low knowledge levels and lack sufficient knowledge development training. In many cases, they are unable to make reasonable judgments on the products they produce. In particular, the outbreak of the global financial crisis has caused some manufacturing companies to fall into the dilemma of having no orders to make. Once orders come in, they blindly organize and arrange production without evaluating them, resulting in products that do not meet the strict requirements of the destination country.
To this end, it is recommended to strengthen control from the following levels:
Manufacturing enterprises: First of all, they should strengthen their awareness of risks, improve their ability to identify product risks, strengthen their study and research of foreign technical regulations, strictly carry out production in accordance with the technical regulations and standards of the importing country, and conscientiously implement training for employees; before signing with customers When making foreign trade contracts, we must pay attention to avoiding risks, not accepting defective designs, strengthening the review of safety items in product design, and enhancing the company’s own self-inspection and self-control capabilities.
Inspection and quarantine agencies: They should strengthen the collection and study of foreign technical regulations and promptly publicize them to enterprises. In particular, some manufacturers of children’s clothing that are newly transferred to the legal inspection catalog should actively conduct preliminary research and publicity work to help and remind enterprises. Improve risk awareness and master foreign technical trade measures; at the same time, we must strictly supervise the operation of the enterprise’s quality management system, strictly control design and production in accordance with system requirements, ensure product quality and implement training, requiring enterprises to fully realize that the enterprise is the first in product quality Awareness of the person in charge. In addition, inspection and quarantine agencies should also strengthen laboratory testing capabilities to ensure that inspections are carried out in strict accordance with relevant national standards.
Industry associations: They should give full play to their role as leaders among production enterprises and actively publicize the significance of “recalls”, “anti-dumping”, “special safeguards” and other measures and their impact on my country’s exports; actively adopt legal, economic or other To resolve the adverse impact of trade protection on enterprises; actively pay attention to the development trend of industry exports, exchange information, and coordinate exports.
Since the production of children’s clothing involves almost the entire industry of textile production in my country, supervision and design specifications are no longer a problem that can be solved by a single or several government departments. It requires enterprises to increase their awareness of responsibility; it requires quality supervision, inspection and quarantine departments to implement supervision. ; It is also necessary for other government departments and social institutions to jointly improve management capabilities in different aspects, so as to ultimately ensure the overall improvement of the quality of my country’s children’s clothing exports and prevent frequent recalls.