Texprocil in collaboration with Control Union has devised a General Certificate of Conformity program to promote exports of Indian grown cotton.

Control Union is a certification body. The initiative will help gain the trust of export buyers by providing traceability of Indian cotton up to the farm level.

Traceability is an important subject for the textile fraternity all over the world.Traceability helps consumers trace the lifecycle of a product starting from sourcing the raw materials to manufacturing, disposing and finally the recycling of the same. Transparency and traceability will play a major role in the years to come for the Indian textile industry to scaleup its capabilities and cater to global brands in an effective manner. Traceability has gained huge importance in the recent past in the backdrop of consumers becoming more conscious about the products they purchase from renowned brands at premium prices.

Yarn traders and exporters are concerned about the presence of the original gene of Xinjiang’s banned cotton in garments exported to the US from India. The fairness of the practices needs to be ensured as consumers are now judging garments on traceability.European Union and the US are planning to come up with certain legislations which will prevent entry of cotton from certain regions like Turkmenistan and Xinjiang. It will provide more powers to enforcement authorities.