JIS is short for Japanese Industrial standards. The JIS is made
by the Japanese industrial standards investigation committee, which
is the Japanese official mission and is the member of Japan's MITI
industrial technology. The primary mission is approve and issue JIS
standard. This organizational system is carry out after the
INDUSTRIAL STANDARD LAW carried out on July 1st, 1949.
JIS can be divided into product standard, test method and basic
standard according to the character of the content.
The Japanese take serious about the quality of the clothing. The
Japanese traders have a strict product quality standards as audit
foundation to the textile and clothing import to Japan. There are
three standards as bellow, JISL, P/L and product quality standards
judge.
(1) JISL. This standard specified all the textile test standards
and method and it contains detailed safety and function
standards.
(2) P/L. It specified that the loss of life and property caused
by product manufacture, the manufacture should be responsible for
it. When the products itself is damage and have not cause damage to
human and goods, they will not investigate. Because of the product
production and manufacture and lead to the accident and damage the
customers' benefit. After confirmed, the manufacture should pay for
it. If the manufacture don't make notes or warning about the
problems on design, production and not clear issue and make
customer not familiar with products and lead to harm to customer,
the manufacture should pay for it.
(3) Judge of product quality standards. About the quality
standards, in general, according to the different textile and
clothing, test the physical property, dye color fastness, products
specification, safety(medicament residue), product appearance,
sewing and so on.
When Japanese trading company import textile and clothing from
China, they'll make a series of quality test standard and demand
the manufacture get the conformity certification or authorization
from the specified quality test agency(such as test company) and
then the products are allowed to be sale in Japan.
There are many textile fiber and clothing mark in Japan.
Q(quality) is the mark of Japanese high quality products. SIF is
the mark of approval and recommend of the excellent products.
By YULONG FR tex
