In July 2012, the Ministry of Industry of Indonesia have signed a regulation No.72/M-IND/PER/7/2012  that regulate of new requirement for babies and children clothing to comply with National Standard of Indonesia  - SNI 7617:2010 Requirement of Azo dyes and Formaldehyde content in fabric for babies and children clothing. The regulation will become mandatory 6 months after the requirement is signed, i.e. 1st February 2013.

SNI 7617:2010 is implemented on fabrics for babies and children clothing up to the age of 36 months and fabric for children clothing over the age of 36 months that have direct contact with the skin, made from woven and/or knitted fabric from various kind of fibers and/or blended fibers.

The standard requires that dyes containing banned amines listed in amino compound group III (MAK Germany) should not be used for both groups and requirement of “zero” formaldehyde  based on SNI ISO 14181 part 2 (result less than 20 ppm will be reported as not detected)  applied for babies and children clothing up to the age of 36 months. While requirement of 75 ppm applied for the other group. 

Product that imported with following HS code of tariff should comply with the requirement:

6111.20.00.00

Garment and accessories for garment of baby made from cotton fiber

6111.30.00.00

Garment and accessories for garment of baby made from Synthetic fiber

6111.90.00.00

Garment and accessories for garment of baby made from other fibers

6209.20.30.00

Garment and accessories for garment of baby made from cotton fiber: T-Shirt, Shirts, Pajama, diapers and related items.

6206.20.90.10

Garment and accessories for garment of baby made from cotton fiber: Coordinates, Pants and related items.

6209.20.90.90

Others apparel product made of cotton fiber

6209.30.10.00

Garment and accessories for garment of baby made from synthetic fiber: Coordinates, Pants and related items.

6209.30.30.00

Garment and accessories for garment of baby made from synthetic fiber: T-Shirt, Shirts, Pajama, diapers and related items.

6209.30.40.00

Garment Accessories made of synthetic fiber

6209.30.90.00

Others apparel product made of synthetic fiber

6209.90.00.00

Others apparel product made of other textile material

9619.00.91.10

Pads, Sanitary Pads, Diapers for baby and related items with cotton fibers fillers

9619.00.91.90

Pads, Sanitary Pads, Diapers for baby and related items with cotton fibers fillers

9619.00.99.10

Pads, Sanitary Pads, Diapers for baby and related items with cotton fibers fillers

9619.00.99.90

Pads, Sanitary Pads, Diapers for baby and related items with cotton fibers fillers


 

Complete details of regulation No.72/M-IND/PER/7/2012 can be found in below link

http://regulasi.kemenperin.go.id/site/baca_peraturan/1266

Should you have any query on the above news, please contact Ms. Made Widyani Tel: (62) 21 3912391 / Ms. Anni Yuliantin at Tel: (62) 21 3905157 / Fax to (62) 21 3918345 Email: