Protect Your Brand Reputation
Responsible Sourcing And Procurement Sends Clients A Powerful Message It has been interesting reading the approach from the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply in terms of its call for a...
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UK Follows California’s Lead in Holding Companies Responsible for Slavery in Supply Chain Europe has taken a page from California and adopted the state’s approach to corporate responsibility for supply...
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Small Changes, Big Impact
Why Compliance Is A Competitive Advantage The promotions industry is a strange and complex place. Even though we serve the largest companies in the world, our industry’s foundation is built on...
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The GSP Is Back
What You Should Know About Duty-Free Imports and Retroactive Refunds The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is a law providing duty-free status to more than 3,500 diverse products that qualify as...
View ArticleCPSC Compliance Materials Now Available In Chinese
PPAI has developed a new web resource that provides Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) compliance materials in Chinese with Spanish and Vietnamese versions coming soon. This material is...
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Toy Safety Regulation
ShareWhy It Should Be Left To the Federal Government On June 2, 2015, the Suffolk County Legislature became the latest county legislature in New York to pass a “toxic-free toys” act. About a week...
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Influential Outliers
ShareCPSC Consent Decrees Have Far-Reaching Impact In October 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice—at the behest of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)—filed suit in California federal...
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The Edge Of Separation
ShareProduct Safety: First It Makes You Sick, Then It Makes You Better Over the years the mantra has been consistent and the message the same, regardless of how it is actually phrased: How do I set...
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Product Responsibility: The Compliance Questionnaire
ShareA First Step Toward More Industry Transparency—And That’s A Good Thing Picture it—it’s a Friday afternoon and your mind is already focused on the weekend. Suddenly you get an email from one of...
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Why All The Fuss About A Code of Conduct?
ShareA code gives your clients an extra boost of confidence to buy from you. Maybe you have read articles on product safety, participated in responsible sourcing education, completed PPAI’s Product...
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Product Safety Compliance
ShareSometimes Good Intentions Aren’t Enough In his “State of Product Safety” speech at the 2015 ICPHSO Annual Meeting, CPSC Chairman Elliot Kaye stated that the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s...
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Safe Products Sell
ShareBeat The Clock On Chemical Regulation Let’s talk about chemicals in your company’s products. Like all consumer products, promotional products are subject to two different but interwoven forces. On...
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The Case For Revisiting Product Safety
Share16 Ways To Avoid An Expensive Disaster Yikes! We’re barely past the halfway point of 2016 and already a whopping $25 million in civil penalties has been assessed against businesses this year for...
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It’s Not Only Your Vote That Matters
ShareTrump vs. Clinton Affects Product Safety Regulation At The CPSC More Than You Might Think. If you hadn’t noticed, it’s election season. We would be the first to admit that you don’t often see...
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Duty Reductions
ShareNew Miscellaneous Tariff Bill process provides duty savings opportunities for importers. The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) is legislation providing benefits to importers in the form of temporary...
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The Cost Of Social Noncompliance
ShareWhen Factory Working Conditions Suffer, We All Pay The Price A strawberry grower recently was fined $2.4 million and ordered to repay kickbacks and rent he demanded from Mexican workers he had...
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Guest Viewpoint: From Best Practices To Industry Standards
ShareDefining Risk For The Promotional Products Industry Compliance with manufacturing standards continues to be a hot topic for the promotional products industry. It is regularly on the agenda at...
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Different Strokes For Different Folks
ShareHow To Cope With Diverse Customer Compliance Standards When it comes to compliance and product safety policies, many customers like to reinvent the wheel. If you are facing this kind of situation...
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Testing Frequency
ShareHow Often Should Products Be Tested To Give Clients Confidence? While most compliance efforts are heavily focused on children’s products due to the existence of many specific standards and the...
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Lithium Batteries: How To Keep From Getting “Burned”
Share Samsung Electronics Co. announced in January that it had completed its investigation of explosive lithium-ion batteries that led it to recall nearly three million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones,...
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Raise Your Defenses
ShareData safety starts with a security mindset For businesses in the promotional products industry, the watchword is safety. But there’s one product that can never be effectively “recalled”—sensitive...
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Speak Up, Speak Out Now
ShareWhat The Border Adjustment Tax Means To Your Family And Business. Everybody loves tax reform. At least, that’s the conventional wisdom in Washington. And what’s not to love? The tax reform plan...
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From Cost Burden To Strategic Advantage
We’ve all been there. We want to put our house on the market, sell it quickly, do it without any headaches and get full-price offers from multiple buyers. In other words, we want the money and we want...
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