Hi all,
Short question: do companies in Australia (NSW in particular) have to have country of origin information in their products? The ACCC states "A business may make any origin claim provided that it is not false or misleading", but this doesn't say that they have to actually make the claim on a product just that if they do it mustn't be misleading.
The company I'm thinking of has provided me with a product which has no country of origin mark on it, but the company itself has a country's name as part of it. I want to keep them anonymous, but my example is "Ernst Schmidt, Germany". The issue is all contact info on their website is Australian, and their products are entirely without country of origin marks. In my view, they are deliberately trying to mislead people into thinking their products come from Germany when they do not.
Please help!
Also thanks to Sophea who replied on another thread which wouldn't let me reply to her - thanks Sophea!
Short question: do companies in Australia (NSW in particular) have to have country of origin information in their products? The ACCC states "A business may make any origin claim provided that it is not false or misleading", but this doesn't say that they have to actually make the claim on a product just that if they do it mustn't be misleading.
The company I'm thinking of has provided me with a product which has no country of origin mark on it, but the company itself has a country's name as part of it. I want to keep them anonymous, but my example is "Ernst Schmidt, Germany". The issue is all contact info on their website is Australian, and their products are entirely without country of origin marks. In my view, they are deliberately trying to mislead people into thinking their products come from Germany when they do not.
Please help!
Also thanks to Sophea who replied on another thread which wouldn't let me reply to her - thanks Sophea!