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Standards Development
The growing younger generation’s demand for Leather portfolios and wallets actively driving the portfolio and wallet market for innovative and reliable products. However, the fragmented standards for leather portfolio and wallets is hindering the manufactures to capitalize global market, while simultaneously limiting the consumers’ access to reliable and high quality products. The existing ISO standards address specific areas of leather goods (such as leather quality, durability testing, and material specifications), there is a gap in addressing leather portfolio and wallets as an integrated product category that covers both product classification and performance assessment in a holistic way. This proposal seeks to create a new ISO standard that provides clear classification criteria according to their functionality and performance benchmarks for sourcing standard materials with global compliance of mechanical properties such as tear strength, colour fastness, attachment strength of button, seam strength, fatigue resistance and also chemical requirements such as Azo dyes, chromium VI content, formaldehyde, organotin compounds, chlorophenol and pH. The expanding global market will be benefitted economically from this standard by facilitating material transparency, unwavering quality, streamlining export requirements for global trade, improve consumer confidence, support ethical practices, and promote sustainability in the leather goods industry.
Goal 4: Quality Education
A standard on leather bags/handbags can contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education for skill training throughout the product’s value chain. This connects ethical production standards with educational opportunities for workers and consumers
Goal 5: Gender Equality
A standard on leather bags/handbags can contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality in meaningful ways, especially when examined through the lens of supply chain ethics, labour practices, and economic empowerment.
Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
A standard on leather bags/handbags can significantly contribute to SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth by promoting ethical production practices, improving labour conditions, encouraging fair wages, and supporting sustainable industrial growth across the leather value chain.
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
A standard on leather bags/handbags can meaningfully contribute to SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by driving quality, innovation, sustainable production, and strengthening industrial value chains—especially in developing economies where leather goods are a key export.
Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
A standard on leather bags/handbags can significantly contribute to SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production by manufacturers adopting guidelines that address the entire product life cycle, from raw material sourcing to end-of-life management. Key strategies include using sustainable materials and processes, ensuring transparency, promoting the circular economy, and establishing clear performance indicators
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