Apparel Carbon Footprint International Standards Increase Export Costs In Disguised Form

In October 4, 2012, the international organization for standardization issued the second edition of the draft ISO14067 international standard, and announced that the official publication date is expected to be April 15, 2014. However, insiders say the draft is expected to come out ahead of schedule this year.

"As the demand for carbon emissions increases, the impact of the new technology standards on trade will gradually emerge." Sun Ruizhe said, "the new mechanism of carbon footprint will increase in disguise." Spin clothing The export cost of an enterprise. "

With the former tariff trade barriers gradually fading out, new trade barriers continue to emerge in other ways. Sun Ruizhe pointed out that "this requires domestic production enterprises not only to focus on product development, but also to consider environmental protection and other social responsibilities."

It is reported that the ISO14067 standard applies to commodities or Clothes & Accessories (collectively referred to as products), the main greenhouse gases involved include six kinds of gas carbon dioxide (CO2), CH4 (methane), Nitrous Oxide (N2O), six sulfur fluoride (SF6), perfluorocarbon carbide (PFCS), hydrofluorocarbon (HFCS), and controlled gases in the Montreal protocol, 63 gases.

June 18th, Shenzhen carbon emission The pilot operation of power trading is officially the first mandatory carbon market in China, marking a key step in the construction of China's carbon market. In response to climate change, especially the use of market mechanisms to achieve emission reduction, China is taking concrete actions. In March 9th, the Interim Measures for the management of low carbon products certification were formally implemented. Analysts pointed out that the implementation of the method to establish a unified national low carbon product certification system, regulate and supervise the domestic low-carbon products certification activities, and actively respond to the international "carbon tariffs" and so on. Green trade Barriers are of great importance.

In recent years, the pressure of energy saving and emission reduction in textile and garment industry has increased year by year. Sun Ruizhe said: "from this year, the indirect emission standard of printing and dyeing is improving." 2013 Textile industry Economic operation has internal and external conditions that will continue to maintain steady growth and gradually increase. At present, what needs to be soberly recognized is that the industry has entered the real scale from the scale growth stage to the depth transformation and adjustment cycle. We should correctly understand the impact of domestic and foreign macro environment and domestic policies on the industry, objectively and comprehensively grasp the requirements of the changing situation on the development of the industry, strive to seek breakthroughs in important links, and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the industry.