Save hand-made toys (Viva la etsy!)
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:32 pm
Handmade Toy Alliance
The U.S. passed a law last year to protect kids (and adults) from things like lead in paint on toys.
However, it would also require small businesses to spend hundreds or thousands on third-party testing on toys and handmade goods to comply with the law -- and likely force them out of business.
- Mere "save Etsy, craft fairs, ebay crafts, small businesses, Canton, flea markets, etc." 1975
The U.S. passed a law last year to protect kids (and adults) from things like lead in paint on toys.
However, it would also require small businesses to spend hundreds or thousands on third-party testing on toys and handmade goods to comply with the law -- and likely force them out of business.
I am going to use this sample letter!- A toymaker, for example, who makes wooden cars in his garage in Maine to supplement his income cannot afford the $300 - $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.
- Mere "save Etsy, craft fairs, ebay crafts, small businesses, Canton, flea markets, etc." 1975