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Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110

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

Title 15 › CHAPTER 2 — FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION › SUBCHAPTER V — TEXTILE FIBER PRODUCTS IDENTIFICATION › § 70c

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Do not remove or damage any required tag, label, stamp, or other ID from a textile fiber product after it has been shipped and before it is sold to the final buyer. Breaking this rule is treated as an unfair business practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act. People who bring, sell, advertise, or import these products may replace the original label with a new one that meets the same requirements. The replacement label must show the name or ID the Commission issued and registered to the person doing the replacement. If someone other than the final buyer opens a labeled package and the items removed do not have labels, that person must put the same label information on each item.

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Title 15, §70c

Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Removal or mutilation after shipment in commerce
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)Substitution of stamp, tag, etc.
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,
may substitute for the stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification required to be affixed to such textile product pursuant to section 70b(b) of this title, a stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification conforming to the requirements of section 70b(b) of this title, and such substituted stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification shall show the name or other identification issued and registered by the Commission of the person making the substitution.
(c)Affixing of stamp, tag, etc. to individual unit of broken package
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.

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15 U.S.C. § 70c

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110