Rule

Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations

Instrument

SI 1988/1324, amended by SI 2025/531

Binds

Whoever supplies the furniture in the UK

Exporting to the UK

1,221 firms

UK furniture fire safety: the cigarette test and the match test

The UK is the one European market with its own ignition tests for upholstered furniture, and they are written into the regulations rather than left to a standard. Upholstery must pass a cigarette test; a cover must pass a match test. A Turkish factory can meet both, and routinely does — but only if the order says so before the fabric is bought, because the test is on the composite, not on the finished chair.

What the regulations actually say

No furniture may include upholstery which does not pass the cigarette test in Part I of Schedule 4. Where filling material is supplied with a cover on it, any visible part of the cover must pass the match test in Part I of Schedule 5, and any invisible part must pass the match test in Part III of that Schedule. The tests simulate two ignition sources: a smouldering cigarette, and a small flame.

The duty lands on whoever supplies the furniture in the UK. For an import that is the UK importer, which is why this belongs in your purchase order rather than in a hopeful email after the container is loaded.

What the 2025 amendment changed

• The definition of furniture narrowed for certain products intended for babies and young children.
• The display label went. The requirement to show a label at the point of sale, including in the second-hand market, was removed.
• The clock doubled. The time limit for bringing proceedings for an offence went from six months to twelve.

The display label going is not the permanent label going, and it is not the testing going. The tests in Schedules 4 and 5 are what a buyer contracts for.

What to ask a Turkish supplier for

• Test reports on the composite you are buying — this foam with this cover — not a certificate for the foam alone.
• The fabric’s own match-test result, from the mill, with the finish named. A treated fabric and an untreated one from the same range are different products here.
• Confirmation in the order that the goods are made to the UK regulations, so a substitution mid-run is a breach rather than a surprise.
• A retained sample of the approved composite, held by both sides.

A firm that has shipped upholstery to the UK before will have most of this on file. The index holds 1,221 firms exporting to the United Kingdom, and 398 of them also sell into the United States, where the tariff position is the live question instead.

Exporting to the UK, with a company page40

Firms in the index that sell into the UK. Being listed says nothing about whether any of them has tested to Schedule 4 or 5 — that is the question this page exists to get asked.

• FirmLocationMarkets
• TGS Bayrakli, İzmir 65
• AGT Agac Döşemealti, Antalya 56
• Kastamonu Entegre Agac Üsküdar, İstanbul 55
• Canakcilar Seramik Zonguldak 50
• Saloni Mobilya İnegöl, Bursa 50
• Akpa Aluminyum İstanbul 49
• Durak Tekstil Yildirim, Bursa 49
• Ak-pa Tekstil Beyoğlu, İstanbul 48
• Akinal Sentetik Tekstil İstanbul 48
• Cilek Mobilya İnegöl, Bursa 48
• Isilplast Plastik Büyükçekmece, İstanbul 47
• Bilge Inoks İstanbul 46
• Eleks Beyoğlu, İstanbul 45
• Kale Kilit Sariyer, İstanbul 45
• Secgin Orman Urunleri İnegöl, Bursa 43
• Yatas Yatak Kartal, İstanbul 43
• Aytav Tavukculuk Ekipmanlari Esenler, İstanbul 42
• Fistas Fantazi Iplik Osmangazi, Bursa 42
• Vezirkopru Orman Urunleri Vezirköprü, Samsun 42
• Zorlu Lüleburgaz, Kirklareli 42
• Ormo Kağithane, İstanbul 41
• Peri Kalip Esenyurt, İstanbul 41
• Asir Group Başakşehir, İstanbul 39
• Kucukcalik Tekstil İnegöl, Bursa 39
• Moral Tekstil Osmangazi, Bursa 39
• ASD Laminat Bakirköy, İstanbul 38
• Enpay Endustriyel Başiskele, Kocaeli 38
• Coats (turkiye) Iplik Nilüfer, Bursa 37
• Hilal Aluminyum İstanbul 37
• Kibar Beyoğlu, İstanbul 37
• Ersah Madeni Esya Arnavutköy, İstanbul 36
• Ucge Nilüfer, Bursa 36
• Numas Teknoloji Uretim Sincan, Ankara 33
• Palmiye Global Hareketli Yapi Sist Esenyurt, İstanbul 33
• Bellona Mobilya Kayseri 32
• Istikbal Mobilya Melikgazi, Kayseri 32
• Nova Corporate ID Mobilya Pendik, İstanbul 32
• Tece Dekor Kagit Baski Nilüfer, Bursa 32
• Teknogon Teshir Elemanlari Çatalca, İstanbul 32
• Tugral MOB Osmangazi, Bursa 32

The other rules on the same firms

• GPSR — what the EU asks of the same factories, and why UK compliance does not answer it.
• EUDR — proof about the land the wood came from, for EU imports from 30 December 2026.
• CE marking — the certificate that answers neither market.

Sources2

Each link goes to the text the fact above was read from. Opened and read on 17 September 2026.

1. The Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988, as in force 30 October 2025 The two tests, in the regulations’ own words: no furniture “shall include upholstery which does not pass the cigarette test in Part I of Schedule 4”, and a cover’s visible part “shall pass the match test in Part I of Schedule 5” with invisible parts under Part III.
2. The Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 The 2025 amendment: it narrows the definition of furniture for certain baby and young-children products, removes the display-label requirement at point of sale, and extends the time limit for proceedings from six months to twelve.

Nothing on this page is legal advice.

The other rules5

• GPSR — the EU responsible person
• EU formaldehyde limit
• EU deforestation regulation
• CE marking and furniture
• US Section 232 tariffs