CBD and Hemp Legal and Regulatory Roundup – July 23, 2021
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CCPA Update: California AG Releases List of Enforcement Actions
The California Office of the Attorney General has published a list of recent CCPA enforcement examples on its website. Each example summarizes the AG’s allegation of noncompliance and the steps that the companies took to cure the alleged noncompliance.
Under CCPA, companies have 30 days to cure noncompliance after which the California AG may initiate a civil action for civil penalties not to exceed $2,500 for each violation or $7,500 for each intentional violation. In…
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CBP’s Proposed Rulemaking to Change Country of Origin Method on Products from Canada and Mexico
On July 6, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would change to the agency’s approach in determining the country of origin for goods imported from Canada and Mexico into the United States.
Currently, a product imported into the United States from Canada or Mexico can have two “countries of origin” for customs purposes. Goods imported from Canada and Mexico have to be marked as a Product…
U.S. Warns of Heightened Risk of Doing Business in Xinjiang
On July 13, 2021, the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State, Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued an updated Advisory on supply-chain risks for U.S. businesses whose business activities may be implicated by human rights concerns related to forced labor in and outside of Xinjiang, China.
The updated Advisory, which echoes the State Department’s annual report on genocide, declares that the Chinese government is committing genocide and…
NAD Addresses Math Problems in Counting Reviews (Again)
Earlier this year, Prose – a company that makes customized haircare products – brought an NAD challenge against Function – a competitor in the same business – over Function’s claims that it had over 110,000 5-star product reviews. We posted about that decision in March. This week, NAD announced a decision in a challenge that Function brought against Prose over Prose’s claims that it had over 192,000 5-star product reviews.
When a consumer buys…
U.S. Adds 34 Technology Companies to Entity List
Yesterday, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce added 14 companies based in China and 20 companies located elsewhere to the U.S. Entity List. According to BIS, the Chinese companies are involved in China’s “campaign of repression, mass detention and high-technology surveillance” against Uyghur and other minorities in Xinjiang. Five other entities were added for directly supporting the Chinese military. The remaining 15 entities were added to the list…