China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, Standardization Administration has recently approved 192 national standards, among which eight standards relating to textile products.

Products fall into the textile category include knitted wadded garments, knitting patchwork clothing, woolen fabrics, woodpulp spunlaced non-woven textiles, silk textiles, synthetic filament weaved gray fabrics, worsted fabrics and worsted fabrics with radioresistance.

It is imperative that manufacturers and importers of items that are covered by these new standards take the necessary action to ensure that their goods meet these new requirements. The execution date of the new standards will be September 15th, 2011.