CBP Intercepts Holiday Lights after CPSC Tip Off
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that on November 30, 2011, CBP officers at the Port of Newark, New Jersey seized a shipment of holiday lights with Consumer Product Safety Commission violations. CPSC alerted CBP to this shipment after…
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it determined that this shipment had severely undersized wires and lacked replaceable fuses as an integrated part of the plug. These deficiencies can cause the overheating of the wires, potentially starting a fire. CBP seized a total of 308 cartons of holiday lights, with a domestic value of approximately $40,000. This was the first seizure of holiday lights by CBP in the New York-New Jersey area this season.