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

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It is illegal to remove or damage any required stamp, tag, label, or other identification on a textile fiber product after it has been shipped but before it is sold and delivered to the final buyer. The rule applies to people who introduce, sell, advertise, offer for sale, or import these products, including products sold inside other products. If someone other than the final buyer opens a tagged package and the units inside have no tags, that person must put matching tags with the same information on each unit. Breaking this rule is treated as an unfair or deceptive business practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Title 15, §70c

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(a)After shipment of a textile fiber product in commerce it shall be unlawful, except as provided in this subchapter, to remove or mutilate, or cause or participate in the removal or mutilation of, prior to the time any textile fiber product is sold and delivered to the ultimate consumer, any stamp, tag, label, or other identification required by this subchapter to be affixed to such textile fiber product, and any person violating this section shall be guilty of an unfair method of competition, and an unfair or deceptive act or practice, under the Federal Trade Commission Act [15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.].

(b)Any person—

(1)introducing, selling, advertising, or offering for sale, in commerce, or importing into the United States, a textile fiber product subject to the provisions of this subchapter, or

(2)selling, advertising, or offering for sale a textile fiber product whether in its original state or contained in other textile fiber products, which has been shipped, advertised, or offered for sale, in commerce,

(c)If any person other than the ultimate consumer breaks a package which bears a stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification conforming to the requirements of section 70b of this title, and if such package contains one or more units of a textile fiber product to which a stamp, tag, label, or other identification conforming to the requirements of section 70b of this title is not affixed, such person shall affix a stamp, tag, label, or other identification bearing the information on the stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification attached to such broken package to each unit of textile fiber product taken from such broken package.

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The Federal Trade Commission Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, 38 Stat. 717, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 41 et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 58 of this title and Tables.

§70c Removal of Stamp, Tag, Label, or Other Identification

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Title 15, §70c

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