Impropriety of description "Made in U."
69 F.T.C. 1209 · Mar. 30, 1966 · Digest No. 22
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No. 22. Impropriety of description "Made in U. " for kit with substantial amount of foreign components. A recent advisory opinion made pubJic today by the Federal Trade Commission notified a marketer of toys that it wou1d not be permissible to use the labeling description "Made in U. for a to01 kit containing two Japanese components. The kits wiU contain 20 items, 18 of American origin and 2 imported from Japan which wiU represent 16 percent of the total va1ue of the entire kit.
The Commission advised that "the claim Made in U. A.' would constitute an affrmative representation that the entire kit was of domestic origin. Since a substantia1 portion of the components therein would be of foreign origin, the Commission is of the opinion that it wou1d be improper to label the kits as Made in U. A.''' (File No. 653 7062 , released Mar. 30, 1966.