Gm520 - Wk2

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1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) The administrative agency that controls this regulation is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Even though the care labeling issue on apparels could be a very minute issue to some people, it is very intriguing to me. My family owns a few factories in China and we produce products from home textiles to clothing. All the products gets exported to the US, European countries, Japan, etc…I use to work in the factory everyday and had many issues with the care label. Each countries care label requirement is very different and it changes from time to time too. Some require the text and the picture to be on the label, some only require picture, and some don’t require labels at all. I never knew of exactly where to check for them other than to put everything on there just in case. Usually there’s a fine from the stores if we printed the labels wrong so this is a very interesting website for me to follow upon. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The FTC is holding a public hearing on issues relating to changing the Care Labeling Rule. Since the original rule said 1. Manufactures and importers must attach labels starting care needed for their ordinary use on textile wearing apparels and certain piece goods(16 CFR 423.5) 2. Manufactures and
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