FTC: Made In The USA Comments Concerning Shirley A. Lawrence--P894219 13457 Windsong Drive June 2, 1997 Made in the USA Policy Of course, manufacturers would love to be able to put "Made in the USA" label on anything made anywhere: whether in a country with humanitarian safeguards for employees and buyers or in one using convict and slave labor with no product assurance required. We consumers would find ourselves paying a fair price - then winding up with pre-shrunk, non colorfast garments that after one washing would be several sizes too small and sporting color streaks and blotches. Efforts to get satisfaction in response to complaints could be fielded with: "I don't know where these things come from. We don't speak English, so we really don't have much contact." I think it was in the sixties that a requirement was made that our garments carry labels with directions for laundering. Have you noticed that everything you buy not requiring dry cleaning instructs: "Wash separately on with like colors in cold water. Do use chlorine bleach. Dry flat or on line." Do you know a housewife who doesn't know anything that can survive being dampened can safely be washed that way? Manufacturers found a way to be too over-burdened by requirement for honesty as to origin. Please continue to provide an important safeguard to U.S. consumers. Thank you. Sincerely, Shirley A. LawrenceShirley A. Lawrence |