§70 — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

Gives plain meanings for key words used in the rules about textile fiber products. It tells what certain words mean so people know how to follow the rules. Person means an individual or any kind of business, like a partnership, corporation, or association. Fiber or textile fiber means a small piece of material that can be spun into yarn or made into fabric by methods such as weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, twisting, or webbing and is the basic part of textile products. Natural fiber means a fiber found in nature. Manufactured fiber means a fiber made by a process from a substance that was not a fiber at some point. Yarn means a strand of fiber ready to be made into fabric. Fabric means material made from or combined with fibers or yarns. Household textile articles covers clothing, costumes and accessories, draperies, floor coverings, furnishings, bedding, and similar household textile goods. Textile fiber product means fibers, yarns, fabrics, or household textile articles, finished or unfinished, used or meant for household textile use, and articles made in whole or part from them. Affixed means attached to the product in any way. Commission means the Federal Trade Commission. Commerce means trade among states, with foreign countries, in U.S. territories, and involving the District of Columbia. Territory includes U.S. insular possessions and any U.S. territory. Ultimate consumer means someone who buys or trades for a textile product with no plan to sell or trade it again.

Title 15, §70

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As used in this subchapter—

(a)The term “person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or any other form of business enterprise.

(b)The term “fiber” or “textile fiber” means a unit of matter which is capable of being spun into a yarn or made into a fabric by bonding or by interlacing in a variety of methods including weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, twisting, or webbing, and which is the basic structural element of textile products.

(c)The term “natural fiber” means any fiber that exists as such in the natural state.

(d)The term “manufactured fiber” means any fiber derived by a process of manufacture from any substance which, at any point in the manufacturing process, is not a fiber.

(e)The term “yarn” means a strand of textile fiber in a form suitable for weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, webbing, or otherwise fabricating into a fabric.

(f)The term “fabric” means any material woven, knitted, felted, or otherwise produced from, or in combination with, any natural or manufactured fiber, yarn, or substitute therefor.

(g)The term “household textile articles” means articles of wearing apparel, costumes and accessories, draperies, floor coverings, furnishings, beddings, and other textile goods of a type customarily used in a household regardless of where used in fact.

(h)The term “textile fiber product” means—

(1)any fiber, whether in the finished or unfinished state, used or intended for use in household textile articles;

(2)any yarn or fabric, whether in the finished or unfinished state, used or intended for use in household textile articles; and

(3)any household textile article made in whole or in part of yarn or fabric;

(i)The term “affixed” means attached to the textile fiber product in any manner.

(j)The term “Commission” means the Federal Trade Commission.

(k)The term “commerce” means commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, or in any Territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia, or between any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory and any State or foreign nation or between the District of Columbia and any State or Territory or foreign nation.

(l)The term “Territory” includes the insular possessions of the United States, and also any Territory of the United States.

(m)The term “ultimate consumer” means a person who obtains a textile fiber product by purchase or exchange with no intent to sell or exchange such textile fiber product in any form.

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The Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939, referred to in subsec. (h)(3), is act Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 871, 54 Stat. 1128, which is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 68 et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 68 of this title and Tables.

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Pub. L. 85–897, § 15, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1724, provided that: “This Act [this subchapter] shall take effect eighteen months after enactment [Sept. 2, 1958], except for the promulgation of

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by the Commission, which shall be promulgated within nine months after the enactment of this Act. The Commission shall provide for the exception of any textile fiber product acquired prior to the

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of this Act.”

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Pub. L. 85–897, § 1, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1717, provided: “That this Act [this subchapter] may be cited as the ‘Textile Fiber Products Identification Act’.” Separability Pub. L. 85–897, § 13, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1723, provided that: “If any provision of this Act [this subchapter], or the application thereof to any person, as that term is herein defined, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of the remaining provisions to any person shall not be affected thereby.”

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