The clothing industry and the rules it now works under.
Regulation, the ultra-fast segment, materials, and the people who publish the measurements.
Assembly stitching at a garment unit. The frequency thresholds in the French text are written against the release cadence a floor like this can sustain.
Photo: EqualStock IN / PexelsThat is the text the National Assembly adopted on 14 March 2024. It is the first statute anywhere to define a category of clothing by the speed at which it is put on sale, and to attach a charge to it. The Senate passed a modified version in June 2025.
Read the bill, article by article
Barcode and QR stickers on an inbound parcel. The digital product passport has to carry more than this, and fit on the garment’s own label.
Photo: Kampus Production / PexelsOn 1 January 2025 separate collection of textiles became mandatory across the European Union.
Regulation, dated →
Grading is manual: reuse, recycling, refuse. Separate collection produces the stream; the sorting decides what it is worth.
Photo: EqualStock IN / PexelsThe United States exempted imports under $800 from duty and formal entry. One executive order ended that for China and Hong Kong on 2 May 2025; a second ended it for all other origins on 29 August 2025.
Parcels valued under $800 entered the United States without duty or formal entry until 2 May 2025.
Photo: Jonathan David / PexelsTextile Exchange’s Materials Market Report 2023 put global fibre production at about 116 million tonnes for 2022.
Textile Exchange put global fibre production at about 116 million tonnes for 2022.
Photo: Lana Kravchenko / PexelsIn June 2022 the Norwegian Consumer Authority found consumer-facing claims built on the Higg Materials Sustainability Index misleading.
The Norwegian Consumer Authority’s finding of June 2022 took the score off the label.
Photo: Ann H / PexelsRegulation (EU) 2024/1781 entered into force on 18 July 2024 and provides for the digital product passport. Textiles are named in the first working plan.
Required in every member state from 1 January 2025 under the revised Waste Framework Directive.
Agreed in the 2025 revision of the Waste Framework Directive, with member states to establish schemes within a fixed period after transposition.
Directive (EU) 2024/825 bans generic environmental claims from 27 September 2026.
The segment France named in law: Shein, Temu, de minimis, and what the product-safety findings say.
7 pieces → § 2
Statutes, directives and codes that name clothing directly — France, the EU, the UK, the US — in date order, with what each one requires and when it bites.
6 pieces → § 3
Cotton, polyester, viscose and their alternatives — the fibre numbers, the water figures, and the audits behind the certifications.
6 pieces → § 4
The indexes, reports and investigations that produce the numbers the industry quotes — and what each one actually measures.
6 pieces →
