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Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110

§69e Name Guide for Fur Products

Title 15 › CHAPTER 2 — FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION › SUBCHAPTER IV — LABELING OF FUR PRODUCTS › § 69e

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission must create and publish a Fur Products Name Guide within six months after August 8, 1951, and hold public hearings first. It will list the true English names of animals that give hair, fleece, or fur, or, if no English name exists, a name that clearly identifies the animal in the United States. With help from the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior and after public hearings, the Commission can add or remove names later. If a listed name makes people think the animal came from a different place than it did, the Commission can require extra wording to avoid misleading or confusing buyers.

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Title 15, §69e

Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Fur Products Name Guide
The Commission shall, with the assistance and cooperation of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior, within six months after August 8, 1951, issue, after holding public hearings, a register setting forth the names of hair, fleece, and fur-bearing animals, which shall be known as the Fur Products Name Guide. The names used shall be the true English names for the animals in question, or in the absence of a true English name for an animal, the name by which such animal can be properly identified in the United States.
(b)Additions and deletions; public hearing
The Commission may, from time to time, with the assistance and cooperation of the Department of Agriculture and Department of the Interior, after holding public hearings, add to or delete from such register the name of any hair, fleece, or fur-bearing animal.
(c)Prevention of confusion or deception
If the name of an animal (as set forth in the Fur Products Name Guide) connotes a geographical origin or significance other than the true country or place of origin of such animal, the Commission may require whenever such name is used in setting forth the information required by this subchapter, such qualifying statements as it may deem necessary to prevent confusion or deception.

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of Federal Trade Commission, with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out under section 41 of this title.

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15 U.S.C. § 69e

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110