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Handmade Toy Alliance

Here is a copy of a letter I sent to CPSIA:

Like many people, I was deeply concerned by the dangerous and poisonous toys that large Chinese toy manufacturers have been selling to our nations families. And, I was very pleased that Congress acted quickly to protect America’s children by enacting the CPSIA. However, I am very concerned that the CPSIA’s mandates for third party testing and labeling will have a dramatic and negative effect on small toymakers in the USA, Canada, and Europe, whose toy safety record has always been exemplary. Because of the fees charged by Third Party testing companies, many toymakers, especially makers of unique and beautiful wooden toys from Maine to Oregon will be driven out of business. Their cottage workshops simply do not make enough money to afford the $4,000 price tag per toy that Third Party testers are charging. Is this how we want America to be especially in these times of financial crises that we force all the small companies out of business while giving monopoly to Fisher-Price and Mattel? If this legislation passes it appears to me that there could be a special deal struck with the CPSC and Fisher-Price and Mattel since this would be the best thing for those 2 toy giants giving them the ultimate market share and forcing all the competitors out. If this happens, it will be a very sad day for Americans and especially American children who will suffer as a result of it. Please reconsider this legislation and force higher standards to the toy giants who clearly have violated the safety standards just for their own pocket book. How do you otherwise explain why European toy manufacturers such as Selecta and Haba who also have some of their toys made in China have never had these issues like the toys Fisher-Price and Mattel have had lately. Also the European Union has had strict safety standards in place for years and they don’t have problems like we have here in America. Please follow the lead that European Union has shown in protecting their consumers, it’s about time that we Americans get the same safety standards here.