The Most Stringent Standards In The European Union At The Same Time Show Increasing Trend.

< p > as China's largest trading partner, it is also the main market for consumer goods exports in China. Every move of the European Union is related to the fate of the domestic "a" target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" shoes export enterprises.

In recent years, the EU's strict restrictions on the consumption of heavy metals in consumer goods are regarded as "the most stringent" in the world, and at the same time, there is a trend of increasing strictness.

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< p > September 2012, the EU REACH regulation added 5 kinds of benzene mercury compounds, and added the list of prohibited substances to lead limit requirements for jewelry products.

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In January 2013, P issued a news bulletin to extend the cadmium restriction to all plastic materials that might be involved.

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< p > March, we consider putting the six valence chromium of < a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > leather < /a > products into the list of prohibited substances in REACH regulations. At the same time, we intend to upgrade the lead regulation to include sports and leisure products, a target= "_blank", "target=" > clothing, shoes, wallets, handbags, accessories, interior decorations, and many other kinds of clothing and footwear consumer goods.

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< p > April, the EU Member States began to adopt the new standard (EN1811:2011) for < a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > textile < /a > metal accessories and accessories in clothing, which is nearly 10 times stricter than the old standard.

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< p > July 20th, the new EU Directive on toy safety will be fully implemented after 4 years of pition. For the first time, allergenic aromatics, CMR substances (carcinogenic, genetic mutation and reproductive toxicity) will be included in the regulatory scope for the first time. 55 kinds of banned allergenic agents, 11 restricted sensitizing aromatics, and 3000 kinds of CMR substances are required.

The requirement for heavy metals is changed from before migration to bioavailability, one by one, and some elements such as six valence chromium to PPb (1/1000000000) level, which is almost the same as food requirements.

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< p > recently, the European Parliament Environmental Council has voted on two prohibitions. Since 2014, mercury has been banned in button batteries, and cadmium containing batteries have been banned in cordless tools since 2015.

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The EU's strict restrictions on the amount of heavy metals in consumer products will have a great impact on the export of related products to the European Union in P.

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< p > one is the steep increase in the cost pressure of enterprises.

The EU calls for the harmless production of consumer goods to control the whole process from upstream resources to downstream sales.

In order to achieve the production without harmful substances, the cost of the export enterprises will be greatly raised. On the one hand, they will weaken the price advantage of "made in China" in the international market, and on the other hand, it will make our export enterprises' meager profits again compressed.

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< p > two is a large increase in customs clearance costs.

As the relevant products need to increase the detection of heavy metals before exporting, it is bound to increase the customs clearance cost of products.

Take Quanzhou, the main toy producing area of Fujian, for example, in 2012, it exported 32 million US dollars to EU toys. After July 20th this year, the specific heavy metals increased from 8 to 19. The detection cost increased from 480 yuan to about 1000 yuan, and 30 export enterprises needed to increase the cost of 100 thousand yuan.

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< p > three is a significant increase in export risk.

In May alone, the EU informed 4 cases of heavy metal consumption in Chinese consumer goods, accounting for 22.2% of the total number of notifications.

With the EU's strict restrictions on the consumption of heavy metals in consumer products, the risk of exporting our consumer goods to the European Union will be bigger and bigger.

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Affected by this, the export growth of China's main consumer goods exported to the EU has slowed down considerably since the beginning of this year. P

According to the inspection and quarantine department statistics, in 1-5 months, China's toy export to the European Union exported 38 thousand and 700 batches, 838 million US dollars, zero growth in export volume, 170 thousand and 400 tons of export inspection textiles, 5 billion 902 million US dollars, and the export amount increased by only 1.59%. Through the investigation of toys exported to the EU in the Fujian inspection and Quarantine Bureau, 1-5 months, the total export volume was 16 million 414 thousand and 600 dollars, a decrease of 5.27% over the same period, showing a shrinking trend.

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< p > < strong > for this reason, it is recommended: < /strong > < /p >.

< p > first, we should attach great importance to the changes in the new EU standards, focus on the control range, limit requirements and testing methods of heavy metal instructions; < /p >

< p > two is to carry out sampling inspection and quality supervision according to the new standard, find problems in time, make good quality control and avoid the risk of return claims; < /p >

< p > three is to strengthen the management and control of heavy metals in consumer goods, and improve the regulatory system of chemicals in China as soon as possible, and take the precautionary principle as the leading factor to reduce, limit and ultimately eliminate the use and discharge of toxic and harmful heavy metals. < /p >

< p > four is that the relevant enterprises should formulate strict production processes, clarify the quality assurance clauses, strengthen product qualification testing, avoid heavy metal exceeding the standard due to improper production process control, strengthen supplier management, strictly control the raw material procurement process, trace back the source from the source of products, and control the amount of harmful substances added.

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