The Quality Of Imported Garments At Shanghai Port Still Has High Security Risks.

Reporters learned today. Imported garments It has been a year and a half since the official catalogue was formally included in the list. However, the quality inspection departments found that the quality of imported clothing still has high security risks in entry and exit supervision, which needs to be highly valued.

It is understood that Shanghai is China's largest import port of clothing, from 1 to June 2012, Shanghai Port imported more than 10 thousand garments, the value of goods amounted to $248 million, the import batch was flat with 2011, but the import value increased by 12.7% over the same period last year. Insiders said that this shows that the import clothing grades gradually improved.

From 1 to June this year, the departments concerned conducted spot checks on imported garments, and the failure rate of quality inspection batches in Shanghai port including safety and hygiene items reached 8.4%, which was 1.75 percentage points higher than the 6.65% unqualified rate in the first half of 2011.

In the first half of this year, the inspection and Quarantine Bureau of Shanghai found that there were nearly 3000 batches of imports with a value of US $65 million. clothing There is a problem in Chinese identification / label, and the batch failure rate is 25.7%.

In the quality inspection of nearly 5000 batches of imported garments for safety and hygiene projects, the inspection and quarantine department found that there were 400 hidden dangers in the imported garments of more than 400 batches and nearly 3 million US dollars worth of goods. The unqualified rate of the sample batches reached 8.4%. The unqualified items mainly involved color fastness, pH value, formaldehyde and so on. Among them, 2 batches of unqualified imported garments were detected with carcinogenic banned azo dyes. It is known that the Shanghai inspection and Quarantine Bureau has supervised the implementation of rectification or destruction or disposal measures for unqualified products.

In the past year and a half of the statutory inspection of imported garments, through the continuous and targeted publicity of quality inspection departments, most importers have understood and grasps the mandatory requirements of China for clothing products, and gradually adjusted the quality of Chinese products, but the overall pace of adjustment is still slow.

It is understood that the quality inspection departments also take a number of measures to optimize the customs environment while ensuring import. Clothing quality Safety and safeguard the rights and interests of domestic consumers. These measures include: formulating standards for inspection and supervision of imported garments, unified operation, creating a fair, just and transparent inspection and supervision environment; scientific management, through data accumulation, carrying out pre assessment of imported fabrics for enterprises with more import batches, better product quality, stronger management ability, and higher government cooperation, reducing the cost of customs clearance and speeding up the customs clearance of enterprises; in addition, the Shanghai import clothing inspection and supervision demonstration zone will be set up to integrate the procedures of declaration, sampling, inspection, testing and rectification of imported garments, so as to further enhance the efficiency and reduce the cost of enterprises and the administrative cost of the government.