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Jan. 8, 2009~ Big Brother is Watching... ~
I am writing tonight with a very heavy heart. I mentioned in my last post about a new law that may affect used clothes, but at the time of writing I did not realize how
encompassing the law was. I have had more time to study it and learn about it. I'm still not sure how much of what I have heard is hard truth, versus speculation, but what I have read and heard is heart breaking. According to several sources, this law will pretty much affect every item that is targeted to children under 12. In other words, you will not be able to go on E-bay and buy a used classic book for your child, you will not be able to go to the thrift shop to pick out your child's wardrobe, you will not be able to go to a craft fair and buy a hand whittled whistle for your child. All products that are targeted for children under the age of 12 will have to be tested (which is extremely costly) or they will have to be thrown out. Our landfills may be filled with books, toys, clothes, baby products, bedding, and electronics that were just too expensive to have tested. Only the large companies will be able to endure the price, which you know will probably be passed to the consumer. Places like thrift shops and resale shops will probably just close their doors, because they would have to test each and every children's item. I have heard even library sales will be affected, they will not be able to sale children's books. I have read where Amazon has told their vendors they will have to comply with this law or they will not be sold through Amazon. Some of the smaller Homeschool publishing companies may have a hard time with this law. Hands of a Child has already announced they will no longer be able to sell their ready made kits, they will only be able to sell e-books and cds and they have to be labeled with "For Educator Use Only" because the very cd, would be band if sold for children's use and not tested.
Action needs to be done now!!! The law goes into effect on February 10th, 2009. The scarriest part is there were 0, yes, 0 nay votes in the Congress (actually I have since read there was one nay vote by congressman Ron Paul, he needs a medal for standing up to this!) and only a small handful in the Senate. But even with that overwhelming support of the bill, your Representative needs to hear from you. That is the only way something will be done about this. Here are two petitions that can be signed to show disproval of the new law (how it is currently written), but please take it a step farther and contact your Senator and Congressman about it. Here is the links to the two petitions: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/economicimpactsofCPSIA/ http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/handmadetoys/
Here is a link to the Government page showing who voted for the bill: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-4040
Like I said, I'm still not sure how much is fact versus speculation, but it is not wise to in the case to wait and see, action needs to be done now. Please educate yourself about this law. I will include updates when I have more information. Please see this blog post for more information: http://thetightwad.today.com/2009/01/05/shopping-for-used-childrens-clothes-could-get-a-lot-harder/
I'm in Canada, so this doesn't affect me, but it sounds like a weird law. What are they testing for?
Don't they know the impact it will have? What about free stuff?
Sorry about all of the questions, it just sounds odd.
Although we here in Canada don't have this same bill being passed so it won't effect us in the purchasing aspect, it does effect how we sell to the US. I am pretty sure from what I read that if we want to sell handmade items into the US we will have to follow the same laws for having them tested or risk selling them illegally and I wonder then if that would also apply to us as well for selling on Ebay? The whole thing is just awful and if it does pass for you, then most likely they will look at doing something similar here next :(
Rosina
