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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 8666611, member: 8267&quot;]This article/blog entry actually quotes the 1890 law, which is helpful, and notes that there have been a number of later amendments/additions:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">The 1891 McKinley Tariff/ Truth In Labeling Laws or, No, You Do Not Have A Real Stradivarius. By Diane Bruce</font></p><p><a href="http://masterhandviolin.com/Blog3.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://masterhandviolin.com/Blog3.html" rel="nofollow">http://masterhandviolin.com/Blog3.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 1890, William McKinley approved a tariff that, in addition to many other things, required this labeling [from section 6]:</p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;That on and after the first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, all articles of foreign manufacture, such as are usually or ordinarily marked, stamped, branded or labelled, and all packages containing such or other imported articles, shall, respectively, be plainly marked, stamped, branded, or labeled in legible English words, so as to indicate the country of their origin; and unless so marked, stamped or branded, or labeled they shall not be admitted to entry.&#039;</p><p>This bill later became known as the Truth in Labeling Law. It was amended in 1914 so that all imports were required to say &quot;Made in&quot; in addition to including country of origin. It was further amended in 1921 so that all imports must include country of origin in English. Thus, Sachsen became Saxony and Nippon became Japan.&quot;</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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