DPP compliance timelines vary by sector. Yours is closer than you think

The EU ESPR Digital Product Passport is being rolled out by product category. Iron&Steel is first, Textiles, Funiture and Electronics follow. Each sector has specific data requirements.

Vietnam Decree 37/2026/ND-CP introduced digital product passport and traceability requirements for all products circulating in Vietnam — using the term DPP explicitly in Vietnamese law for the first time.

Industries

Iron & Steel

By 2026, the iron and steel industry transitions toward mandatory DPP. For Vietnamese manufacturers supplying EU construction, automotive, or manufacturing brands, early adoption offers a strategic advantage in meeting compliance requirements before competitors.

The data complexity for iron and steel DPP is significant: material grades, chemical composition, production process data, recycled content, and origin declarations must all be machine-readable and traceable through the supply chain.

Textile

Vietnam's most valuable EU export category. By 2028, every textile product sold in the EU must carry a Digital Product Passport. The delegated act is expected early 2027 with compliance enforcement following 18 months later — meaning data infrastructure decisions must be made now.

EU brand clients are already requesting DPP-readiness assessments from their Vietnamese suppliers. Manufacturers who cannot deliver structured, validated data on material composition, chemical compliance, manufacturing origin, and recycled content risk losing their largest contracts.

Furniture

By 2028, every furniture product sold in the EU must carry a Digital Product Passport. For Vietnamese furniture manufacturers — a growing EU export category — this means greater transparency requirements on material sourcing, chemical content, repairability, and end-of-life disassembly.

Furniture DPP requirements will demand multi-tier supply chain data: from raw timber or fabric origin through to surface treatment chemicals and fastener materials. VATRUST's multi-tier ingestion capability handles this complexity.

Electronics

By 2028-2029, every electronic product sold in the EU must carry a Digital Product Passport. Electronics DPP requirements are among the most data-intensive: battery data, critical raw materials, repairability indices, and software update commitments must all be structured and machine-readable.

Vietnamese electronics contract manufacturers supplying EU brands face the added complexity of multi-tier component sourcing documentation — from semiconductor origins to conflict mineral declarations — that must be normalized and validated against EU requirements.