FTC: Made In The USA Comments Concerning Barbara A. Mikulski--P894219 BARBARA A. MIKULSKI United States
Senate June 5, 1997 William B. Prendergast Dear Mr. Prendergast: I would appreciate it if you would review the enclosed correspondence which I have recently received and would contact my office as soon as possible with the appropriate information to respond to my constituent. Mr. Fouche has concerns about the definition of "Made in America". Please send your response to the attention of my assistant, Ms. Jillian Kong-Sivert, in my office at 9658 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 208, College Park, Maryland 20740, or you can reach her by phone at (301) 345-5517. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Barbara A. MikulskiBarbara A. Mikulski BAM:jks May 28, 1997 U. S. Sentor Barbara Mikulski Dear Senator Mikulski: I am greatly disturbed and I need your assistance in a matter concerning The Federal Trade Commission. The FTC has stated that "MADE IN U.S.A." in the advertisement field and on products, no longer necessarily has to really mean what it says. Right now, when I buy a product with the slogan of “MADE IN U.S.A.” I buy it confidently knowing that it is made either completely or almost completely with American parts and American labor. The FTC wants to destroy my confidence in “MADE IN U.S.A." by permitting less than what I expect to receive when I purchase goods and/or products, so identified. Permission by the FTC to do less in reality constitutes a fraud upon the consumer and it opens even wider the access to moving more of our jobs to Mexico and other overseas underdeveloped countries. I strongly urge you to resist any attempt of the FTC to change what I have, over the years, come to expect of a product identified as "MADE IN U.S.A." Please advise me in writing what action you have taken on my request for you to deter the FTC. Yours truly, A.G. Bobby Fouche AGF-13 |