On July 1, 2025, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson designated July as “‘Made in the USA’ Month,” and reiterated the Commission’s commitment to cracking down on deceptive MUSA claims. The FTC quickly followed this announcement on July 8 by sending warning letters to four companies, reminding them to comply with FTC’s 2021 Made in USA Labeling
The FTC recently released Complying with the Made in USA Standard, which further interprets the 2021 Made in USA Labeling Rule and the FTC’s 1997 Enforcement Policy Statement on U.S. Origin Claims.
The new guidance reiterates the FTC’s position that unqualified “Made in the USA” claims require “all or virtually all” U.S. content
Manufacturers and distributors of household cleaners and similar chemically-based consumer products sold in Canada should be aware of an uptick in recalls by Health Canada for violations of the labeling requirements of the Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, 2001 (CCCR) under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA). The CCCR establishes detailed product classification criteria
In keeping with its 5-year schedule for comparability range updates to the Energy Labeling Rule (Rule), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on May 25, 2022, seeking to revise the Rule to require EnergyGuide labels to update comparability range information on EnergyGuide labels for televisions, refrigerators and freezers, dishwashers, water
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has for some years targeted deceptive Made in USA claims as an enforcement priority, as we have previously discussed (see our most recent blog post on Made in USA here). Since 1999, the FTC has brought 28 enforcement actions against companies falsely claiming their products were American made. The
