Textiles

Regulatory Content Overview

Our textile regulatory content in C2P helps manufacturers, retailers, and their supply chain partners manage their compliance challenges encompassing a wide range of textile products.

Our coverage focuses on newly proposed, enacted, and amended regulations and mandatory standards, covering labeling, chemicals, product safety, packaging, testing, and certification.

Textiles are among the most regulated of all products, due to concerns including:

• Proper care instructions, to ensure the consumer’s ability to maintain apparel
• Mislabeling of faux leather and fur as real leather and fur
• Restrictions on chemicals in direct and prolonged contact with the skin, like azo colorants, flame retardants, formaldehyde, heavy metals and phthalates
• Flammability of daywear and children’s sleepwear, and
• Physical hazards from drawstrings in children’s apparel

Our coverage encompasses the following product categories:

• Adults and children:
  • Apparel 
  • Footwear
  • Sleepwear
  • Accessories 
• Wearables
• Home textiles (bedding, curtains, oven mitts, towels, etc.)
• Upholstered furniture and furnishings (cushions and pillows, sofas and chairs, etc.)
• Mattresses and mattress pads
• Carpets and rugs
• Tents
• Umbrellas

Our textile regulatory content is maintained by our Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who participate on a number of global textile committees including the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) and ASTM International. These SMEs also support clients as they consider entering new geographic markets and launching new product categories, creating and maintaining global matrices of restrictions on drawstrings and labeling requirements, and Restricted Substances Lists (RSLs) to ensure compliance no matter where they export or sell.

Compliance & Risks’ coverage of textiles regulations is historically comprehensive and includes, but is not limited to:

• Argentina: Labelling Requirements for Footwear, Resolution No. 465/2018
• Australia: Goods (Care Labelling) Information Standard 2023
• Canada: Textile Labelling Act, c.T-10, 1985
• Canada: Textile Labelling and Advertising Regulations, C.R.C., c. 1551, 2010
• Canada:  Textile Flammability Regulations, SOR/2016-194
• Canada: Textile Floor Coverings Regulations, SOR/2016-176
• California (USA): Responsible Textile Recovery, Senate Bill 707 Enacted, 2024
• China: Updated Textile and Light Industrial Products Standards List, Announcement No. 17, 2016
• EU: Labelling of Textile Products, Regulation (EU) No. 1007/2011
• EU: Labelling of the Materials used in the Main Components of Footwear for Sale to the Consumer, Directive 94/11/EC
• EU: Waste Directive, 2008/98/EC – Proposed Amendment – (on extended producer responsibility scheme for textiles) Draft Directive, July 2023
• EU: Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, Communication, March 2022
• EU: Exemptions to Prohibiting the Destruction of Unsold Apparel and Footwear as Prescribed in Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, Draft Regulation, June 2025
• France: Methods of Calculation and Communication of Environmental Cost of Textiles, Draft Decree, November 2024
• France: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Restrictions, Law No. 2025-188
• Indonesia: Mandatory Product Labelling in the Bahasa Language, Regulation No. 25/2021 
• Italy: Extended Producer Responsibility for Textiles, Draft Decree, April 2025
• Japan: Textile Goods Quality Labelling Regulation, Notice No. 4, 2017
• Japan: JIS L 0001:2024 Textiles – Care Labelling Code Using Symbols, 2024
• Mercosur: Approving Technical Regulations on Labelling of Textile Products, Resolution, MERCOSUR/GMC/RES. N.62/18
• Mexico: Commercial Information for Labelling of Textile Products, Garments and Household Linen, Standard NOM-004-SE-2021
• Mexico: Prevention and Management of Waste, General Law, October 2003 – Proposed Amendment – (on addition of textile waste) Draft Decree, August 2025
• New Zealand: Consumer Information Standards (Fibre Content Labelling) Regulations, SR 2000/154
• New Zealand: Consumer Information Standards Country of Origin (Clothing and Footwear) Labelling, Regulations SR 1992/360
• Russian Federation: Labelling of Footwear Products by Means of Identification, Resolution No. 620, 2018
• Russian Federation: Rules for Marking Footwear Products by Means of Identification and 
• the Implementation of the State Monitoring Information System, Resolution No. 860, 2019 
• Taiwan: Regulations Governing Inspection of Textile Products, Order No. 10020002180, 2011
• Taiwan: Mandatory Commodity Inspection of Non-Baby Textile Products (Garments, Sweaters, Swimwear and Hosiery), Notice No. 10120009680, 2012
• Taiwan: Labelling Criteria for Textiles, Announcement No. 10402435750, 2015
• Turkey: Conformity Assessment of Certain Products with Relevant Standards, Communiqué, May 2016 – Amendment – (on information and labelling requirements for consumer products containing parts of animal origin) Communiqué No. 32865, April 2025
• USA: Origin and Manufacturer Identification for Import of Textiles, 19 CFR 102.23, Rule, 2005
• USA: Textile Fiber Products Identification Labelling Act, 15 USC 70, 1958
• USA: Textile Fiber Products Identification Rules, 16 CFR 303
• USA: Wool Products Identification Labelling Rules, 16 CFR 300
• USA: Fur Products Identification Labelling Act, 15 USC 69
• USA: Fur Products Identification Labelling Rules, 16 CFR 301
• USA: Standards for Flammability in Clothing Textiles, Rule, 16 CFR Part 1610, 2008
• Vermont (USA): Regulating Consumer Products Containing Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Other Chemicals, Senate Bill 25 Enacted, 2024

We cover standards for our core products that are available from our partner Accuris. These are available through our Product Compliance Solution.