Vietnam Garment Exports to U.S. to Face More Hurdles from Feb 2009
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) September 16 announced the latest regulations on textile and garment exports to the U.S. market to enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City.
Accordingly, all apparel shipments to the U.S. will abide by the new regulations which will officially come into effect from February 2009.
According to Nancy Nord, CPSC president, the U.S. Congress has approved a new law on imported product safety into the U.S. since August 14, 2008. The law includes many regulations and each has different effect.
Nord said the commission will further tighten supervision over regulations on product safety such as inflammability of cloth and absolutely banning dress with tie in collar, especially dress for children.
The law allows CPSC to destroy products violating safety regulations in stead of forcing to re-export as previously, she said, adding violators will be fined up to US$15 million.
The stricter new regulations were issued as imported product safety violations tend to increase over the past 18 months.
According to Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, the country exported an estimate of US$2.9 billion worth of apparel products to the U.S. in the first seven months this year, up 16.75 per cent on-year.
The Asian country also expects to ship US$6.1 billion worth of textiles and garments to the foreign market this year, compared with US$4.5 billion last year.
The nation has targeted to make total apparel export revenues of US$9.5 billion in 2008, compared with US$7.8 billion in 2007. (cafeF, Vietnam Economic Times)
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