Starting March 2, 2028:
— The duty to trace fibre origin extends to spinning mills and independent weaving workrooms
This change reaches every workshop on the union register that moves finished cloth across borders, including sole traders (even those under the small-batch exemption, so long as they sell on to other registered workrooms inside the union).
The core shift is that every lot must carry a machine-readable origin record (such as a Cloth-ID, OTX, or LDR file) and move through an approved Fibre Ledger Node (FLN) — a scanned paper docket sent by email will no longer clear the customs desk on its own.
Read the fibre ledger guide