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UKFT Toolkits

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UKFT has a growing library of toolkits, containing valuable guides, templates and data, that cover a wide range of subjects from business essentials, sustainability and international business to labelling, compliance and much more. These resources can be found within each toolkit but you can also browse our full resources list below.

UKFT members have full access to all UKFT resources. Please get in touch for more information, to gain access or discuss membership.

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Compliance

  • C101: UKFT Guide to EU GPSR
  • C101: UKFT Guide to EU GPSR technical files and risk assessments
  • C101: UKFT Guide to EUDR
  • C101: UKFT Guide to Global packaging EPR
  • C101: UKFT Guide to Global textiles EPR
  • C101: UKFT Guide to UK packaging EPR
  • C101: UKFT Guide to UK empty packaging EPR for packaging suppliers
  • C101: UKFT Guide to US product entry and e-filing
  • C101: UKFT Guide to Certificates of conformity
  • C101: UKFT Guide to Flammability testing requirements
  • C101: UKFT Guide to Furniture and Furnishings Fire Safety Amendment 2025
  • C101: UKFT Guide to misleading labelling
  • C101: UKFT Guide to ESPR & DPP current guidance
  • C101: UKFT French environmental cost
  • UKFT Report: How people in the UK buy and care for their clothes 2025
  • UKFT Guide to EPR, Triman and Waste Management in France
  • UKFT Guide to garment labelling in the EU
  • UKFT Guide to French AGEC law
  • UKFT Guide to Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025

Sustainability 

  • Sustainability 101 issue 1: Standards and certification
  • Sustainability 101 issue 2: Green washing
  • Sustainability 101 issue 3: A guide to human rights and environmental due diligence in supply chains
  • UKFT’s Code of Conduct template
  • Sustainability 101 issue 4: A guide to chemical compliance
  • UKFT Risk Assessment Form template
  • UKFT Supplier Declaration of Compliance with REACH template
  • UKFT guide to understanding the options for the reuse and recycling of textiles

Sustainable Manufacturing

Textile Recycling

Reuse & Recycling Resources 

  • UKFT best practice guide for exporting used textiles
  • UKFT guide to sorting post-consumer textiles for export: Compliance and best practice
  • UKFT guide to identifying and classifying reusable vs non-reusable post-consumer textiles

Industry statistics

  • UK Fashion & Textile Industry: Facts and Figures 2024
  • The Fashion & Textile Industry’s Footprint in the UK (UKFT & Oxford Economics)

Investment & Funding

  • Funding support for fashion and textile SMEs: City-by-city guide to UK grants and financial schemes

Business Development

  • UKFT Guide to Exhibiting at International Tradeshows
  • UKFT Fashion Routes to Market Comparative Pricing
  • UKFT Guide How to open a store and get the best deal
  • UKFT Guide to assessing if you are ready for investment
  • UKFT Guide to Design Protection
  • UKFT Guide to making Modern Slavery Statements
  • UKFT Guide to Pricing Competitiveness
  • UKFT Guide to the new Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT)
  • UKFT Guide to Website Mimicking
  • UKFT Recommendations for free digital resources and tools
  • UKFT Comparative Fashion Pricing
  • UKFT Guide to Wholesale and Retail Pricing Competitiveness
  • UKFT Guide to Standards

International Business 

  • UKFT Briefing Note on international tradeshows in the EU
  • UKFT Briefing Note on the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act
  • UKFT Guide to calculating a wholesale landed price for the EU
  • UKFT Guide to China’s Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law
  • UKFT Guide to claiming Origin under the UK-EU TCA agreement
  • UKFT Guide to EPR Schemes
  • UKFT Guide to EPR, Triman and waste management of textile products in France
  • UKFT Guide to New French Law on Environmental Labelling
  • UKFT Update on the DIT Internationalisation Fund
  • UKFT Fashion Routes to Market Flowchart
  • UKFT Guide to the EU De-forestation Regulations
  • UKFT Guide to the new EU General Product Safety Regulations (2023/998)
  • UKFT’s Discover British Brands and Textiles reports

Making Sales 

  • Growing B2C international sales globally UKFT and Global-E
  • UKFT Glossary and Explanations of Selling Terms
  • UKFT Guide to Trade Credit Insurance
  • UKFT Guide to Digital Wholesale

Terms and Conditions 

  • UKFT Example of Customer Terms & Conditions
  • UKFT Example of Wholesale Terms & Conditions
  • UKFT Example of Privacy Policy Documents
  • UKFT Example of Website Terms of Service

Trade Agreements 

  • UKFT Guide to the UK Japan Free Trade Agreement
  • UKFT Guide to the UK Morocco Trade Agreement
  • UKFT Guide to the UK South Korea Free Trade Agreement
  • UKFT Guide to the UK Tunisia Trade Agreement
  • UKFT Guide to the UK Turkey Free Trade Agreement
  • UKFT Guide to the UK Vietnam Free Trade Agreement
  • UKFT Guide to the UK Turkey Free Trade Agreement
  • UKFT Guide to the UK Canada Continuity TCA Free Trade Agreement
  • UKFT Guide to the UK EU Free Trade Agreement
  • UKFT Guide to CPTPP
  • UKFT Guide to the UK Australia FTA
  • UKFT Guide to the UK New Zealand FTA

Working with the European Union, post Brexit

  • UKFT Working with agents and distributors in the EU post-Brexit
  • UKFT Brexit Guidance Toolkit
  • UKFT Brexit Guide to EU Tradeshows: Handling samples stand fittings and personnel
  • UKFT Brexit Guide to Inward and Outward Processing (IPR and OPR)
  • UKFT Brexit Guide to Returned Goods Relief
  • UKFT Guide to Rules of Origin for Trading with the EU
  • UKFT Brexit Guide to the Implications of Free Circulation
  • UKFT Guide to ATA Carnets
  • UKFT Guide to claiming Origin under the UK-EU TCA agreement
  • UKFT Guide to Design Protection Post-Brexit
  • UKFT Guide to EU Responsible Company (EURC) Requirements
  • UKFT Guide to Garment Labelling in the EU post Brexit
  • UKFT Guide to Immigration and Movement of People post-Brexit
  • UKFT Guide to the new EU Import One Stop Shop (IOSS)
  • UKFT Guide to the UK Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP)
  • UKFT Outward Processing Relief

Start-up Resources 

  • How to Protect Your IP
  • Tips on Becoming a Sustainable Business
  • Business Plan Template
  • Working with Investors
  • Growing a Team
  • Coffee Break Catch Up – Pop-ups
  • Getting Your Business Ready to Wholesale
  • How to Prepare for Buyers
  • Tradeshows, Showrooms and Agents
  • Building Brand Awareness and Understanding Your Customer
  • Registering your business in the UK
  • Guide to Care Labelling
  • Guide to Pricing

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