What is the CPSIA?

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In the absence of clear guidance from CPSC on many important issues, each business will have to decide for itself how to deal with CPSIA.

Crafters and small businesses are not ignoring the law because the risks are too great. There is a fine of $100,000 and potential prison time of five years for each “incident.” Considering that an “incident” is a single, non-compliant product fines could total several hundreds of thousands of dollars and the potential for far too [...]

Large corporations are only a tiny percentage of the businesses that are affected by CPSIA.  They are better able to afford expensive testing and compliance hassles because they can spread the costs over millions of products.
Small and tiny businesses with fewer than 20 employees are the majority of the businesses affected by CPSIA and are [...]

Because CPSIA affects a decentralized network of businesses, no organization or government office can keep track of all of them.  However, there is a list being compiled here of known losses definitely attributable to CPSIA, based on media reports and businesses’ self-reports.  At the time of this writing, the amount is over $4 billion.
The list [...]

When we think of “businesses” we usually think of large companies, but actually about 2/3 of businesses in the U.S. are very, very tiny– they have less than 5 employees.  Only a tiny fraction of businesses have more than 100 employees.
The testing required by CPSIA on a small business’ products can easily cost more than [...]