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Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73not60

§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 Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission must create and publish a Fur Products Name Guide within six months after August 8, 1951. It must do this with help from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior and only after holding public hearings. The guide will use the animals’ true English names, or a name that properly identifies the animal in the United States if no English name exists. The Commission can later add or remove names after public hearings. If a name suggests the wrong place of origin, the Commission can require extra wording so buyers are not confused or misled when that name is used in the product information required by this law.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §69e

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(a)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)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)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

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60