Zhejiang Covers The Export Of Leather Related Products, And Pays Close Attention To The EU'S Draft Regulations On Leather Containing Six Valent Chromium.

< p > July 12, 2013, the European Commission issued a draft amendment to the REACH code annex XVII on the six valent chromium.

The draft regulations require that the six valent chromium content of leather products that are in contact with human skin with < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > leather products < /a > dry weight exceed or equal to 3mg/kg shall not be put into the EU market. Leather products that are in contact with human skin contain leather parts, and the six valent chromium content calculated by dry weight of leather components is more than or equal to 3mg/kg, nor is it allowed to be put into the EU market.

The draft will be approved in the first quarter of 2014 and will be implemented after 1 years of approval.

Zhejiang province's technical trade measures research and response center invited the relevant units to pay close attention to the latest progress of the regulation and take active measures to reduce the risk of export trade.

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< p > < strong > 1. The export situation of leather related products in Zhejiang province is less than /strong > /p >

< p > leather industry in Zhejiang province is made up of leather, shoes, leather goods, leather garments, fur and products.

After 30 years of rapid development, the leather industry has formed a relatively complete industrial chain.

According to statistics, there are more than 3000 enterprises in leather industry, 5 billion pairs of shoe making products, more than 300 million leather bags and 20 million leather garments.

According to Hangzhou customs data, the export volume of leather and leather shoes in Zhejiang province was about 7 billion 560 million in 2012, accounting for 1/3 of China's total exports.

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< p > according to some industry associations, the implementation of this regulation will not only increase the cost of products, but also reduce the international competitiveness of leather products in Zhejiang Province, and more importantly, because it can not completely eliminate the production of six valent chromium at all, it will become the interface of the EU restricting the export of Zhejiang products, causing serious trade friction, and even resulting in the closure of Zhejiang leather products export to EU.

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The draft regulations promulgated by the EU (P) are a great obstacle to our strategic goal of leaping from a leather power country to a leather power country in our "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_x.asp "leather industry < /a >.

The implementation of the regulations will inevitably lead to frequent trade frictions between China and the EU. The trade in leather products will be extremely vulnerable for us.

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< p > the leather products, leather shoes, bag and suitcase, which are included in the bulletin, are the traditional export industries of our province, involving a large number of production enterprises and practitioners. It is of great significance to stabilize the export of Zhejiang province to do a good job in coping with the EU's notification.

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< p > one is to increase publicity and training and enhance confidence in coping.

Due to the particularity of leather products, pportation and storage environment have great influence on the formation of six valent chromium in leather even under the control of production links.

Zhejiang province should take the European Union notification as an opportunity to increase the publicity and training of chromate related knowledge of enterprises, analyze the possible causes of six valent chromium from the whole production process, improve self-control ability of enterprises, improve the management level of enterprise personnel, and enhance the confidence and level of enterprises.

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< p > two is the research on developing environment-friendly leather tanning preparations.

In the face of environmental protection and security becoming the mainstream of development, Zhejiang enterprises should take technical barriers as a breakthrough, change the past methods of chromate tanning leather which are harmful to the environment and human beings, and develop new and environmentally-friendly a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_cj.asp" > leather tanning preparations < /a >, fundamentally enhance the industrial level of our province, and achieve industrial upgrading and sustainable development.

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< p > three is the research and development of precision testing instruments and methods.

The 17075 test methods adopted by the European Union and China's GB/T22807-2008 adopt spectrophotometric method. The detection limit of 3mg/kg content is high, and the accuracy of the instrument and the level of the operator are higher.

Zhejiang should take this opportunity to research and develop the detection instruments and detection methods with trace accuracy, and occupy the commanding heights of detection.

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