Submitted on Monday 20th July 2020
Rejected on Monday 27th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legal requirement to display a products country of manufacture/origin
Make it a legal requirement for retailers and online suppliers to clearly state a products country of manufacture or origin
To give the consumer more information about what they are purchasing. To give purchasers an idea of the size of the products 'carbon footprint', if the country of origin has ethical employment laws and fair trade policies. To give UK consumers the opportunity to make informed decisions on whether to support the home economy or put their pound notes into supporting corrupt countries with appalling human rights records.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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All products sold in the UK to be clearly labelled with country of origin:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309019
Make Internet sellers list goods' country of origin:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/317819
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