Eleven toy companies received China Compulsory Certification
(CCC) marks for their products on Monday in Shantou City, Guangdong Province.
The compulsory product certification scheme is a quality
appraisal system which has been established by governments to
protect consumers' personal safety, the safety of animals and
plants, the environment and national security. It’s stipulated that
only with a certification mark can certain products be imported and
sold.
According to a Xinhua report on April 11, since 2002 China has
issued four batches of CCC marks covering auto products, home
appliances, electrical wiring, wireless networks, decoration and
fitments and security technology.?
Last year the General Administration of Quality Supervision,
Inspection and Quarantine and the National Regulatory Commission
for Certification and Accreditation jointly issued a document,
which subjects six types of toys, including baby carriages, those
which were electrical, those which shot projectiles, toys made of
metal, dolls and plastic products, to the CCC scheme as of June 1,
2007. On March 1 this year, three authorized certification and 15
inspection institutions began to receive applications for CCC marks
from toy firms and to do product testing on commission.
Most of the eleven firms which have obtained CCC marks are from
the Chenghai District of Shantou City. More than 3,000 toy firms
operate in the district.
China Toy Association said on Tuesday that this year the toy
export industry had continued to grow. In January and February the
export volume was US$1.788 billion -- an increase of 20.6 percent
over the same period last year, Chinanews reported on
Wednesday.
The association said the leading market for toy exports was the
United States. Last year more than 38 percent of China's exported
toys were sold to the US. Of European countries the UK had shown
biggest increase in imports of Chinese toys with a year-on-year
rise of 50 percent.
In Asia, besides Japan and South Korea, as a newly developed
free trade area, the import levies in the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations will gradually come down and exports of China's toys
will go up.
Export of the TV-supported video game players and other similar
game players is rising sharply with a year-on-year increase of 41
percent and 275 percent respectively in 2005. They hold first and
second places in the export league. As updates of the products
continue, these high-tech toys are proving most popular in the
international market.
The toy business of Guangdong Province accounts for 80 percent
of the country's toy export total.
(China.org.cn by Zhou Jing, April 14, 2006)