EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY BACKS RULE OF ORIGIN LAW

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has now approved a European Union (EU) regulation insisting that clothing and textiles imported from outside the EU, Turkey, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein be labelled or marked with their country of origin. MEPs agreed the words 'made in' and the country must be written in English or a local language understood where the goods are sold.

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