Goods must always be properly labeled, and those that are not are considered non-conforming and out of compliance. However, just because there’s no global standard doesn’t mean importers and exporters have license to act however they wish. In fact, we continue to legislate country of origin labeling today! Despite the fact that 130 years have passed since the McKinley Tariff Act (also known as the Porcelain Marking Act), the way we label goods still isn’t standardized. One subset of this incompletely defined area is marking and labeling. (Even the World Trade Organization’s developed protocol has been interpreted differently.) Country of origin is known as one of the last areas of definition under international trade, and it’s one that has no formal definition.
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