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COOL Online Act

Official title: To require origin and location disclosure for new products of Foreign origin offered for sale on the internet.

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What This Bill Does

This bill requires sellers of imported products online to conspicuously disclose the country of origin of the products and the country where the seller's principal place of business is located.

This requirement does not apply to specified products, such as agricultural commodities, food or drugs, or previously owned items.

The Federal Trade Commission must enforce violations of this requirement as unfair or deceptive trade practices.

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Timeline

  1. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
  2. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  3. House floor actionsReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  4. Introduced
  5. Committee

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