US-bound children's shoes facing higher safety standards

Reporters learned from the China Light Industry Arts & Crafts Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, recently, the United States Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act officially came into effect.Although the bill for all imports and children's products sold in the United States, on children's shoes, however, about 8 percent of U.S. imports of children's shoes are made in China, the bill's promulgation and implementation of the new challenges on the export of Chinese shoes. Wenzhou and Guangzhou, Quanzhou, three children's shoes manufacturing base in the same column.Wenzhou is the larger of the middle and low children's shoes production base in Guangzhou is a high-end children's shoes production base, the Quanzhou mainly the production of children's sports and leisure shoes.Currently, the city's children's shoes manufacturing enterprises had more than 900. Mainly in four aspects, the new bill proposed improvements: limited lead content and phthalates in children's products; forced by an approved third-party testing and certification; mandatory traceability labeling requirements; aggravated violation penalties. According to the bill, the limits change of lead paint in children's products will be reduced nearly ten-fold reduced from 0.06% to 0.009%; permanent ban on children's products containing more than 0.1% of dioctyl phthalate esters, phthalic the formic acid dibutyl phthalate, butyl benzyl phthalate three substances. In addition, some children's products are subject to authorized third-party testing and certification.Export goods shall be attached to each batch of applicable certificate, and send a copy of the certificate to any dealer or retailer to receive the supplies; each of the certificate shall include at least the date and address, the testing organization contact information and other information product manufacturing, testing.The sources said that the the above coercive measures will inevitably increase the cost of exports, the more complicated export procedures. The bill also provides that manufacturers of children's products shall be affixed permanently clearly marked on the product and its packaging, including other identifying characteristics of these products, production date, lot number and product in order to better take recovery actions or communications retrospective sources.The requirements in the bill took effect one year after the entry into force. It is reported that, in violation of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act will be subject to a maximum $ 100,000 fine.City some children's shoes manufacturing companies had been informed of the news, and active technology research organization, and comply with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act requirements for the export of children's shoes.