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U.S. Reissues Guidelines on Labeling West Bank Products
(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - U.S. Customs recently issued a reminder notice to importers in the U.S. to not label products that come from the West Bank as "Made in Israel" and made it clear that those who do not comply would be sanctioned. This is a reissuing of a guideline from 1995 - a byproduct of the Oslo Accords - that set different customs regulations for Israel and the West Bank. While State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Thursday said, "this guidance was simply a restatement of previous requirements," an Israeli official said: "It's convenient for them to present it as being a technical issue, but in the U.S. things never happen just by chance....Under the guise of a technical notice the Americans are taking a political step."