Shanghai Port is the largest port of apparel imports. Since this year, 301 clothing officially transferred to the HS codes of products imported from the directory statutory inspection, Inspection and Quarantine Bureau Shanghai strict door, insist on inspection, monitoring of the two do not relax, and achieved remarkable results.
Shanghai Inspection and Quarantine Bureau found that in practice, the situation is not optimistic about the quality of imported clothing. According to incomplete statistics, first half of 2011, Shanghai Port imported clothes Total 11 500 grant, paper napkins the value of $ 220 million. The council on 5625 shipments to implement sampling, sampling rate of 49.5%, failed more than 31 approved a failure rate as high as 55.8%. Among them, the appearance and the label has more than 2,800 batches failed, the failure rate as high as 49.2%; detected the intrinsic quality of clothing 390 batches failed, a failure rate of 6.7%, mainly related to failed projects fastness, pH, azo dyes, formaldehyde and so on.
High failure rate for imports of clothing, Shanghai Inspection and Quarantine Bureau in the air, the harbor full surveillance, focus on strengthening the safety, health, inspection and supervision of environmental protection projects, the firm failed to be returned or destroyed clothing. Carried out in the first half focused on the destruction of the campaign,paper tissue has been focused on the destruction of 80 batches, involving nearly ten thousand pieces of test failed in the high-end clothing. As of the end of June, a total of 120 batches of substandard products destroyed, returned 80 batches of over 100 pending approval.
For nearly half of Chinese imports of clothing label unqualified phenomenon, Shanghai Inspection and Quarantine Bureau launched a number of measures, pay close attention to non-Chinese label or labeling is not standardized, is not accurate, and effectively protect consumers' right to know. In the strict control at the same time, the council also introduced a number of measures to help promote: First, to develop specifications, and concentrate on assessment of imported clothing logos, labels rectification warehouse. So far 143 community owned warehouse storage and 9 pass the examination on the website and announced in the Council, to ensure Chinese goods into circulation before the tag line with our mandatory technical specifications; the second is a number of imported garment enterprises to develop Publicizing training activities, to explain China's relevant compulsory technical specifications to help businesses strengthen self-correcting capabilities, from the source to achieve prevention; third is excellent and long-term integrity tested and part of the fabric business to carry out pre-testing of the experimental work, so good business trade more facilitation.