CPSC Announces $100K Provisional Settlement with Fireworks Importers
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published a provisionally-accepted Settlement Agreement with Jake’s Fireworks, Inc., Far East Imports, Inc., Wholesale Fireworks Enterprises LLC, and Pacific Northwest Fireworks, Inc., containing a civil penalty of $100,000.00, for importing fireworks that failed to comply with CPSC’s fireworks regulations.
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Interested persons may ask CPSC not to accept this agreement or otherwise comment on its contents by December 15, 2010.
Firms Allegedly Imported 200,000 Non-Complying Fireworks from 2006 -- 2007
CPSC alleges that between December 2006 and September 2007, these firms imported over 200,000 fireworks that failed to comply with the CPSC’s fireworks regulations at 16 CFR 1500.17(a)(3) and 16 CFR Part 1507.
Settlement WouldImpose $100,000 Penalty, Requires Destruction of Merchandise
To settle staff allegations, the agreement would require the respondents to pay a civil penalty of $100,000.00 and to destroy at their own cost and in front of CPSC officials the inventory of all violative fireworks. In addition, further daily penalties would apply if the firms do not comply with the terms of destruction.
(The Agreement does not constitute an admission by respondents nor a determination by CPSC that the respondents knowingly violated the Federal Hazardous Substances Act.)
(D/N 11-C0001, FR Pub 11/30/10)