CBP Partners with CPSC, Seizes 261K Cigarette Lighters
On June 13, 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 261,000 cigarette lighters, valued at approximately $135,000, for missing the required child-safety mechanism. This seizure was part of a multi-agency national operation initiated by CBP's Import Safety Commercial Targeting and…
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Analysis Center (CTAC). In March 2011, CBP officers, in partnership with the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s compliance investigator, examined a targeted shipment of cigarette lighters from France. CPSC evaluated a sample of the shipment and later determined it to be in violation of the Safety Standard for Cigarette Lighters requiring cigarette lighters to be fitted with a child-resistant mechanism in order to protect children from injury. (See ITT's Online Archives or 05/10/11 news, 11051034, for BP summary of the CPSC providing links to all of its mandatory product safety standards, including the safety standard for cigarette lighters.)