Home products retailer Williams-Sonoma will have to pay almost $3.2 million penalty for violating a Federal Trade Commission “Made in USA” order.
FILE -Shoppers leave a Williams-Sonoma store in New York, Jan. 3, 2008. Home products retailer Williams-Sonoma will have to pay more than $3.17 million penalty for violating a Made in USA order from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. – Home products retailer Williams-Sonoma will have to pay almost $3.2 million for violating a Federal Trade Commission “Made in USA” order.
“Williams-Sonoma’s deception misled consumers and harmed honest American businesses," FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said."Today’s record-setting civil penalty makes clear that firms committing Made-in-USA fraud will not get a free pass.” The complaint that resulted in this week's settlement was filed by the Justice Department on referral from the FTC. According to the filing, the FTC found that Williams-Sonoma was advertising its PBTeen-branded mattress pads as “crafted” in the U.S. from domestic and imported materials — when they were made in China.
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