Tea bag materials and standards: paper, nylon, PET, PLA
Tea bag materials: filter paper under China's GB/T 25436-2023, nylon, PET or PLA; GB 4806 and EU food-contact rules; EU compostability required by 2028.
Packaging
Tea packaging
How inner bags, roll stock and foil paper protect tea, how customs classify them, and what importing them involves.
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Guides
Tea labelling requirements: Morocco, West Africa, EU
Tea labelling requirements compared: Arabic in Morocco, French in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire, the EU's Regulation 1169/2011 and Codex: name, lot, dates, origin.
Keeping tea fresh in transit: moisture and condensation
Keeping tea fresh in transit: China caps moisture at 7.0% for gunpowder, chunmee, black and most oolong tea. Container sweat, the CTU Code and GB/T 30375.
Tea export packaging: bulk cartons to retail packs
Tea export packaging: each pack's net weight sets the HS code (3 kg) and Morocco's duty (20 kg); liners guard against damp; China's GB 23350 skips exports.
Glossary
Tea packaging terms explained in plain words, with the French and Chinese equivalents.
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