TEXTILE EXPORT

COMPLIANCES
Group:
Roll No. Name
1 Aakash Sharma
9 Avanish Jagani
15 Diksha Bansal
19 Ishan Shah
20 Joydeep Chatterjee
33 Pooja Kothari
 Labour Compliance
Core Labour Standards:

•Elimination of Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation

•Freedom of Association
•Right to Collective Bargaining
•Elimination of all Forms of Forced or Compulsory Labour
•Effective Abolition of Child Labour

Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has launched “DISHA” (Driving Industry Compliance Challenges Being
towards Sustainable Human Capital Advancement) Faced By The Apparel Industry

No child who has not Persons who have completed

01 completed fourteenth year
02
of age shall be required or
allowed to work in any
occupation in the factory
No female young person
fourteenth, but not
eighteenth, year of age are
not employed in hazardous or
01
dangerous operations
Young people are required to
Woman workers in the
factories should legally be
entitled to work beyond
7.00 PM.
(In IT sector it is allowed
now)

03 shall be required or allowed

to work in any factory
04 work only after obtaining a
‘certificate of fitness’ from a Government has taken up
except between 8.00 A.M.
and 7.00 P.M
government medical officer
not below the rank of an
02 the issue of increasing the
overtime CAP to 100-125
Assistant Surgeon. The fee for hours per quarter.
obtaining this certificate
would be borne by the factory
 Social Compliance
 For garment factories to be socially compliant, the 9 requirements
of the SA8000 Standard needs to be met

 Difficult to achieve and are sadly not always being implemented in

apparel factories around the world because it costs organizations
money to be socially compliant

 Additionally, garment factories are located predominantly in developing countries around the globe, such as China,
Bangladesh, and India where cheap, forced or child labor often go undetected

1. Child labor
1. Discrimination
2. Forced labor
2. Disciplinary practices
3. Health and safety
3. Working hours
4. Freedom of association & collective bargaining
4. Remuneration
5. Management systems
 Compliance to Domestic Laws
USA and the EU continue to be the most important markets for Indian apparel
industry, accounting for about two-third of India’s textiles exports

These countries have been insisting upon compliance to certain social,

environmental and safety standards and norms by the production units involved in
export business within national boundaries

Exporters must not be

1 involved in unfair labor
practices including but not
limited to interferences in
matters concerning
freedom of association
Exporters shall ensure that
2 proper ventilation systems
are installed within their
premises to prevent
airborne exposures which
may affect the health of
workers
Workers shall be entitled to at
3 least 24 consecutive hours of
rest in every seven-day
period. If workers must work
on a rest day, an alternative
consecutive 24 hours rest day Exporters shall not threaten
must be provided 5 female workers with dismissal or
any other employment decision
that negatively affects their
Exporters shall provide employment status in order to
4 workers with paid annual prevent them from getting married
leaves as required under local or becoming pregnant
laws, regulations and
procedures
 Environmental Compliance in Textile Industry
Boston Consulting Group, estimated that in 2015, the global textiles and clothing industry was
responsible for the consumption of 79 billion cubic metres of water, 1 715 million tons of CO 2
emissions and 92 million tons of waste. It also estimated that by 2030, under a business-as-usual
scenario, these numbers would increase by at least 50 %
• Spinning mills use humidification system to control fly liberation and to provide congenial atmosphere to the work force. Hence, the type
of machinery and level of modernization in spinning section, and the installation of humidification system automatic waste evacuation
1. system in the mills are the factors to be considered for categorization of mills from the view point of air pollution.

• Ecolabels were considered in this sector to control the environmental damage from the growing of cotton to the finishing stages of
textiles. The increase in demand, particularly in the developed countries, for natural fibres and consequent pressure on cotton producing
countries to increase exports has resulted in a sense of urgency among developed countries to impose quality criteria through eco-
2. labelling on their imports.

• Green products can be made with fewer materials and can be designed to be more easily upgraded, disassembled, recycled, and
reused than their conventional counterparts. Implementing green product design can provide numerous benefits to a company
3.

• Environmental audit
• Applicable regulatory and permit requirements.
• Accepted good enviro-technology and management practices.
4. • Corporate sponsored environmental policies and compliance programs
Issues Related to Competitiveness & Compliances
Exports of Ready Made Garments dropped 3.46 per cent to $16.37 billion in 2018-19 from
$16.7147 billion in the year-ago period. This fall was because buyers insisting on several
compliance
India’s garments were 10-15 per cent costlier than other competing countries. Indian exporters are
also over dependent on a narrow product base

Average tariffs levied on Indian textile exports are around 5.9 per cent in the EU, while it is 6.2 per
cent in the US, compared to zero per cent and 3.9 per cent on exports from Bangladesh

In the last five years of NDA rule, the year 18-19 was the worst for exporters. Textiles, especially
the garments sector, has been a major employment generator with 45 million being employed
directly and 20 million being employed indirectly

Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam have low production cost and they enjoy preferential duty access in
key markets that contributed to making India’s exports less attractive. Also, Indian exporters face
higher trade barriers compared to countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam and Pakistan in key markets
 Quality & Technical Standards
Quality
Control
Program Stages of Inspection
Quality (a) Inspection of incoming material
Assurance (b) Inspection of production process
Programs
(c) Inspection of finish goods
Steps involved in inspection
Quality
Assurance 1. Stages of Inspection Stages of Inspection Planning (Export House)
Manual 2. Inspection Planning (a) Incoming material - QC
3. Floor & Patrol Inspection (b) Fabrication - raw material to production
4. Centralize inspection (c) Polishing
5. Process inspection (d) Finishing
Quality
6. Final inspection (e) Final assemble
Assurance 7. AQL Concept (f) Labelling / Packaging
Section (g) Boxing / Carting
Quality
Assurance
Level inspection by buying agencies
Department
Order -- Preproduction (5%) --
Dupro (30%) -- Random (80%) --
Quality Shipment (100%)
Control
Section
 Thank you

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