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LabellingWhat we
watch for

Labelling problems surface at the border.

Not on the shop floor. These are the requirements we check a design against before it goes into production.

Requirements

Fibre content labelling

US law requires textile products to carry fibre content, country of origin, and the identity of the responsible company. Getting this wrong is a labelling problem that surfaces at the border, not on the shop floor.

Care instructions

Care labelling has its own requirements, and "dry clean only" as a catch-all is not a safe default — it has to be substantiated for the garment it is attached to.

Children’s apparel

Childrenswear carries additional testing and certification obligations, including on drawcords and small parts. We flag when a design lands in that category; the testing itself comes from an accredited lab, not from us.

Limits

What this page is not.

It is not legal advice, and we are not a certification body. We flag the requirements a garment appears to trigger so they can be handled during development rather than after. Testing is done by an accredited laboratory and the certificate comes from them. Where a product raises questions we cannot answer, we say so and recommend you engage someone qualified to.

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