China's wooden furniture exports are affected by the EU's green barriers

At the end of 2009, the European Commission approved Resolution 2009/894/EC on the award of eco-label standards for wood furniture communities. For more information, please stay tuned to http:// Xianghe Furniture City official website

This regulation was implemented on November 30, 2009 and is valid for 4 years. Although the introduction of this standard will have important significance for the improvement of the global environment in the long run, in the short run, it will make the export of wooden furniture in our province as a major export province encounter more severe green trade barriers, which will bring severe development to the industry. challenge.

The European Eco-label, also known as the “flower logo” and the “flower of Europe”, is the passport for the best-selling “Great Europe”. The main contents of the European Union's wooden furniture eco-labeling standards include implementation objectives and certification requirements, scope of exemption, product specification, hazardous substance management, wood and wood material sources and hazardous substances limit requirements, standards for surface treatment of wooden furniture products, and combinations. Limits for adhesives and VOC content in furniture and packaging labeling requirements for final products.

Substances that are subject to limitations include nitrogen propylene ring, polyazacyclopropene, pentachlorophenol, formaldehyde, flame retardants, organotin compounds, heavy metal content, and bactericides, and set strict standards for wood sources.

The EU is China's second largest export market for wooden furniture and one of the fastest growing markets for China's wooden furniture exports. Export growth is staggering. The introduction of the eco-label standard for wooden furniture will be of great significance to the improvement of the global environment in the long run. In the short run, it will make the export of wooden furniture in our province as a major export province encounter more stringent green trade barriers, put more stringent requirements on export enterprises in our province, and increase the certification and system of wood furniture export in our province. The cost has weakened the competitiveness of furniture export in our province to a certain extent, which has brought severe challenges to the development of the industry.

In order to enable the relevant departments and enterprises of Zhejiang Province to better respond to the newly implemented eco-labeling standards for wooden furniture in the EU, the Provincial Standardization Institute and the Provincial WTO/TBT-SPS Notification and Consultation Center have proposed the following five recommendations and measures:

1. The government business management and technical quality supervision departments should jointly organize the research to deal with the newly implemented wooden furniture eco-label standard project in the EU, propose scientific countermeasures and policy recommendations, and integrate with the international community as soon as possible in the institutional environment of eco-label certification. .

2. The government should strengthen the work of quality standards on the basis of national policies. Adjust the furniture standard system, actively participate in the formulation of international standards, and accelerate the transformation of foreign advanced standards to domestic standards.

3. Actively promote the green design concept. Through the product's detachable design and recyclability design, the furniture can be produced without waste and can be recycled. The renewable raw materials are selected without using rare plants as raw materials.

4. The company must carry out the environmental protection and safety factors throughout the eco-design concept of the product, strictly control the quality of the whole process from material procurement to sales, and the entire production chain will be in the end. In addition to complying with the current EU health, safety and environmental standards, related products should actively seek to obtain the “double insurance” of eco-labels.

5. Increase the added value of products and actively pass relevant certifications to cross new trade barriers.

For more information, please stay tuned to http:// Xianghe Furniture City official website

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