[Jewelry making - Article 00017] - Re: [Orchid] FTC guidelines

[Alma Rands]

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    I wonder how strictly the FTC will deal with foreign exports that
    are in direct violation of the law that requres that items labeled
    "hand Made: must be made by hand? I see a lot of machine made
    jewelery being offered on the internet that is made in Bali, and
    represented as being "hand made," Yet, it seems to me, unless I am
    terribly mistaken, that the objects are made by machine, and not by
    hand. One internet company is offering woven chains, "handmade in a
    factory in Bali." Are the workers in the factory sitting there
    weaving these chains by hand, or are they made by a machine? 

    Who is going to check to verify whether or not the chains were
    actually made by hand? Just curious. 

Alma Rands
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