COOL Online Act (H.R. 9057) — Country-of-Origin Labeling for Online Marketplace Sellers
The COOL Online Act would extend country-of-origin disclosure requirements to internet marketplace sellers, with concepts identified in the bill including origin disclosure requirements, multi-sourced product handling, safe-harbor provisions, and OTC drug disclosure requirements. The bill addresses how online sellers must disclose product origin to consumers, with implications for importers who sell through e-commerce channels.
We read this bill as a meaningful downstream compliance expansion: importers supplying goods through online marketplaces may face new origin-substantiation obligations that flow back up the supply chain. Our position is that origin determination and record-keeping practices are directly implicated, particularly for multi-sourced or co-mingled product lines.
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