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NZ set to scrap origin labels for footwear

09/08/2007

According to a statement from New Zealand’s Green Party, the country’s government is mulling plans to abandon country of origin labelling for footwear and clothes.

"Consumers will be alarmed by government plans to dispense with the requirement that clothes and footwear carry country of origin labels identifying where they have come from, once 'residual tariff' issues have been resolved," said Green Consumer Affairs spokesperson Sue Kedgley.

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