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The paperwork is part of the product

If you sell apparel in Europe or North America, your supply chain is now part of your compliance position — and increasingly part of your public disclosure. We build the documentation alongside the goods so you are not chasing us for evidence weeks later.

Our position

We would rather tell you what we cannot do yet

Certification claims are easy to make on a website and expensive to get wrong. Below, we separate what is already in place from what is available on request, and what depends on which yarn mill supplies a given order. If a specific certificate is a hard requirement for your file, raise it at the brief stage and we will confirm it in writing before you commit.

amfori BSCI — full audit Jul 2026, valid to Jul 2027 ISO 9001 — quality management, in place National Sci-Tech SME — registered 2025 Fibre certification — dependent on nominated mill

Documentation stack

What we can put in your file

Ordered by how often buyers actually ask for it. Anything marked "on request" is prepared per order rather than held on file.

Document Availability What it supports
Fibre composition report Per order on request Care labelling accuracy, marketplace and retailer listing requirements
Restricted substances statement
AZO, formaldehyde, pH, heavy metals
Per order on request REACH awareness, retailer chemical policies, own-brand compliance files
Traceability file
Fabric lot, dye lot, cutting and finishing records
Per shipment Your supplier transparency disclosures and product-level traceability data
Measurement report Per shipment Quality evidence, fit-dispute resolution, reorder consistency
AQL final inspection report Per shipment Retailer onboarding, marketplace quality documentation
ISO 9001 certificate On file, shareable Supplier qualification and vendor-registration processes
amfori BSCI audit report
TUV Rheinland · full monitoring · Jul 2026
On file, shareable under NDA Retailer and marketplace social-compliance onboarding, vendor registration
Fibre-identity certification
GOTS, GRS, RWS and similar
Subject to mill nomination Sustainability claims, certified-collection labelling, green-marketing substantiation

Chain-of-custody certificates belong to the yarn mill, not to us — nobody who only knits can legitimately issue them. Where your programme needs one, we will nominate a certified mill and pass the mill's certificate and transaction data through to you as part of the file.

amfori BSCI

Our latest social audit

A social audit result is easy to bury and expensive to have found for you. Our facility is audited annually against the amfori BSCI code of conduct; the most recent was a full, semi-announced monitoring audit carried out by TUV Rheinland in July 2026. Here is the headline, and the full report is available on request.

Audited July 2026, valid to July 2027

The audit assessed thirteen performance areas. Nine were assessed as A — including every category a retailer treats as a stop-line. An audit of this kind always produces findings; ours did, they are under corrective action with dates, and the complete report — findings and action plan included — is shared with buyers during supplier onboarding.

Nine of thirteen areas assessed A

  • Freedom of association and collective bargaining
  • No discrimination, violence or harassment
  • Occupational health and safety
  • No child labour
  • Special protection for young workers
  • No precarious employment
  • No bonded or forced labour, no human trafficking
  • Protection of the environment
  • Ethical business behaviour

Every category a retailer treats as a stop-line — child labour, forced labour, discrimination, health and safety — was assessed A.

Buyers can verify the result directly on the amfori Sustainability Platform against the amfori ID opposite. The company is also registered on that platform as Jiangyin Xinni Garments Corp. Ltd., which is the name that appears on the audit record.

Europe

What EU textile regulation is asking of your supply chain

European textile rules have moved from labelling towards full lifecycle accountability. None of it changes what we knit — but all of it changes what a supplier has to be able to document.

Digital Product Passport (DPP)

Textiles are among the first product groups in scope under the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. A passport is a machine-readable data record attached to a product covering composition, origin, repairability and end-of-life handling.

Our part: we hold and structure the manufacturing-side data — fibre composition, yarn origin, weight, construction, finishing processes — in a form that can be assembled into your passport entries. We cannot issue the passport; you or your compliance provider will. But the data has to come from us, and it is much cheaper to collect it now than to reconstruct it later.

Unsold goods & overproduction

The EU has moved to restrict the destruction of unsold apparel, with large companies in scope first. For a brand, that raises the cost of over-ordering.

Our part: small minimums and repeat-friendly construction. A low initial order that you can replenish is a materially better risk position than a large speculative buy — and it is the reason we pushed our minimums down rather than up.

Substance restrictions & REACH

Restricted substances, dye chemistry and finishing auxiliaries are the sharpest edge of EU textile compliance and the most common cause of a failed lab test.

Our part: documented dye and finishing processes, plus restricted-substance testing on request. Where a buyer's chemical policy is stricter than the legal baseline, tell us at the brief stage so we can select yarn and chemistry accordingly.

Extended producer responsibility & labelling

Several member states now levy charges on textile producers, and fibre-composition labelling accuracy is enforced through marketplace listings as well as physical labels.

Our part: fibre composition testing and accurate care-label data per order, so the figures on your listing match the goods in the box. That matters more than it sounds — mismatches are a standard enforcement trigger.

North America

United States & Canada requirements we support

CPSIA
For childrenswear: fibre testing, small-parts documentation and, where applicable, flammability records. Raise this at the brief stage — childrenswear needs a longer compliance runway than adult apparel.
California Prop 65
Restricted-substance testing can be specified for the US market where your retailer requires it.
Care labelling
FTC-compliant fibre content and care instructions produced from the confirmed specification sheet.
Country of origin
Marked and documented as required for US import, with the paperwork needed by your customs broker.
Flammability
General apparel flammability requirements understood; test evidence for childrenswear arranged with a third-party lab where required.
Tariff & origin planning
We provide the manufacturing data your broker needs to classify goods correctly. Duty planning is your side's call, but we will not make it harder by being vague about origin or composition.

Audits & verification

Third-party scrutiny is welcome

Yes. We schedule SGS, Bureau Veritas, Intertek, SLCP or a buyer-specific audit into the production plan rather than treating it as an interruption. We already hold a current amfori BSCI report — full monitoring by TUV Rheinland, July 2026, valid to July 2027 — so for most retailers the social-compliance step is already covered. Give us reasonable notice and we will confirm dates, access and the documents the auditor will ask for.
Chain-of-custody certification sits with the fabric mill and is issued against fabric, not against a sewing factory. When your programme requires a certified fibre, we nominate a certified mill and pass the mill's certificate and transaction records through as part of your file. We will confirm in writing which certificate is available for a given fabric before you commit.
Yes, and we would rather do it early. Platform onboarding, retailer vendor portals and ESG questionnaires all ask for the same underlying data — factory profile, workforce, energy, waste, sub-contracting. Sending us the template at the brief stage means it is answered before it becomes a blocker to your listing.
Core cutting, sewing, finishing and packing are carried out in our own facility. Where a specialised process has to be outsourced — certain dyeing or embroidery techniques, for example — we disclose the subcontractor before the order is confirmed. Undisclosed subcontracting is the single most common cause of a failed social audit, and we do not do it.
To the fabric lot and dye lot allocated to your order, plus the cutting, finishing and inspection records generated during production. That covers the questions a retailer's compliance team normally asks. If your programme needs upstream traceability to the fibre farm, that is arranged at yarn-selection stage and depends on the mill's own traceability scheme.

Building a compliance-ready apparel programme?

Send us your retailer's or marketplace's requirements alongside the style brief. We will come back with what we can document, what we cannot, and what it costs.