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 Floor Coverings Regulations, SOR/2016-176
• 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
• Indonesia: Mandatory Product Labelling in the Bahasa Language, Regulation No. 25/2021 
• Japan: Textile Goods Quality Labelling Regulation, Notice No. 4, 2017
• New Zealand: Consumer Information Standards (Fibre Content Labelling) Regulations, SR 2000/154
• 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: Labelling Criteria for Textiles, Announcement No. 10402435750, 2015
• USA: Textile Fiber Products Identification Labelling Act, 15 USC 70, 1958
• USA: Textile Fiber Products Identification Rules, 16 CFR 303

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