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Advice for manufacturers and retailers on textile labelling.
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
Official Government Buying Standards (GBS) for textiles used for uniforms, furnishings and dishcloths: banned dyes, retardants, pesticides.
The T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
Latest statistics on output, jobs, productivity, wages, plus research and development expenditure in the UK textiles, clothing and leather industry.
How to comply with your environmental permit: additional technical guidance for the textile sector.
A legal document for the sector association which outlines their obligations in the Climate Change Agreements (CCA) scheme.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for textile and fabric coating and finishing.
This document contains the following information: Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation: agreement on textiles and clothing; Marrakesh, 15 April 1994.
Product Safety Report for Ayan Textile Hoodcord Jacket presenting a serious risk of strangulation.
Rules for UK Fashion and Textile Association Ltd
The Low Pay Commission's 2022 compliance and enforcement report looks at the example of the Leicester textiles sector.
Rules for Lancashire Textile Manufacturers' Association
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