A scary trend is on the way, which may become a nightmare for customs and trade compliance professionals. The trend can lead to a job loss because those professionals may…
Tag: <span>Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act</span>
Consumer Product Safety Commission: General Observations on Scope, Jurisdiction, and Effect on Trade
The scope of Consumer Product Safety Commission authority is broadly established to extend to any consumer product from which the risk of injury could occur (see 16 CFR 1145.1). Legal…
The editor of this blog would like to make a correction to the statement posted few days ago about CBP/CPSC joint webinar presentation. In the blog notice, it was stated…
CBP posted a 06/08/10 webinar slides of CPSC presentation. Overall, the slides appeared to create a joint statement, by both agencies, to cooperate with one another. General procedural policies, as…
Rationality of phalates requirement of PL 110-314, Sec. 108(a) is discussed in CBS 60 Minutes presentation “Phalates: Are they safe?” aired on May 23, 2010. The video is available at…
CPSC’s recent webinar slides provide brief preview of minimum compliance standards for non-children products that importer is required to comply with. Those importers that would like to keep their expenses…
On January 28, 2010 attorneys from Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt LLP (GDLSK), Alan R. Klestadt (aklestadt@gdlsk.com) and Frances P. Hadfield (fhadfield@gdlsk.com) issued a flyer called “Product Safety Duty…
On June 4th opinion letter, CPSC’s Office of General Counsel attempted to clarify the meaning of children’s product with respect to ball point pens. It appears to be an industry…
The emergency stay request, CPSC opinion letters, and finally SDNY court ruling point to the sign that the American plastic toy industry is really caught off guard. Additionally, the record…