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  * A toymaker, for example, who makes wooden cars in his garage in Maine to supplement his income cannot afford the $4,000 fee per toy that testing labs are charging to assure compliance with the CPSIA.

  * A work at home mom in Minnesota who makes cloth diapers to sell online must choose either to violate the law or cease operations.
 
* A small toy retailer in Vermont who imports wooden toys from Europe, which has long had stringent toy safety standards, must now pay for testing on every toy they import.
 
* And even the handful of larger toy makers who still employ workers in the United States face increased costs to comply with the CPSIA, even though American-made toys had nothing to do with the toy safety problems of 2007.




you can read the full law here

Here are some more links about it….

National bankruptcy day

Change.org: Save handmade toys

 

 

 
December 21, 2008 @ 06:07 pm
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