TEXTILE FIBER PRODUCTS IDENTIFICATION ACT [PUBLIC LAW 85–897, 85TH CONGRESS, APPROVED SEPTEM- AN ACT To protect producers and consumers against misbranding and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cited as the "Textile Textile Fiber Fiber Products Identification Act”. DEFINITIONS (72 Stat. 1717; 15 U.S.C. 70).1 SEC. 2. As used in this Act (a) The Term "person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other form of business enterprise. Products "Person." (b) The term "fiber" or "textile fiber" means a unit "Fiber." 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. "Natural fiber.") "Manufactured (d) The term "manufactured fiber" means any fiber aber." derived by a process of manufacture from any substance which, at any point in the manufacturing process, is not 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 com The citations shown after each caption and the notes in the margin are insertions by the editors of this compilation. "Yarn." "Fabric." "Household articles." "Textile Alber product." "Amxed." "Commission." 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; except that such term does not include a product required to be labeled under the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939. (i) The term "affixed" means attached to the textile fiber product in any manner. (j) The term "Commission" means the Federal Trade Commission. "Commerce." (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. "Territory." "Ultimate " (1) 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 consumer." who obtains a textile fiber product by purchase or exchange with no intent to sell or exchange such textile fiber product in any form. MISBRANDING AND FALSE ADVERTISING DECLARED UNLAWFUL (72 Stat. 1718; 15 U.S.C. 70a). SEC. 3. (a) The introduction, delivery for introduction, manufacture for introduction, sale, advertising, or offering for sale, in commerce, or the transportation or causing to be transported in commerce, or the importation into the United States, of any textile fiber product which is ■ misbranded or falsely or deceptively advertised within the meaning of this Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, is unlawful, and shall be an unfair = method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice in commerce under the Federal Trade Commission Act. (b) The sale, offering for sale, advertising, delivery, =transportation, or causing to be transported, of any textile fiber product which has been advertised or offered for sale in commerce, and which is misbranded or falsely or deceptively advertised, within the meaning of this Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, is unlawful, and shall be an unfair method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice in commerce under the Federal Trade Commission Act. (c) The sale, offering for sale, advertising, delivery, transportation, or causing to be transported, after shipment in commerce, of any textile fiber product, whether in its original state or contained in other textile fiber products, which is misbranded or falsely or deceptively advertised, within the meaning of this Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, is unlawful, and shall be an unfair method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice in commerce under the Federal Trade Commission Act. (d) This section shall not apply (1) to any common carrier or contract carrier or freight forwarder with respect to a textile fiber product received, shipped, delivered, or handled by it for shipment in the ordinary course of its business; Exemption as to common carrier. Exemption as to processor or unisher. (2) to any processor or finisher in performing a contract for the account of a person subject to the provisions of this Act if the processor or finisher does not change the textile fiber content of the textile fiber product contrary to the terms of such contract; (3) with respect to the manufacture, delivery for Exemption as transportation, transportation, sale, or offering for sale of a textile fiber product for exportation from the United States to any foreign country; (4) To any publisher or other advertising agency or medium for the dissemination of advertising or to exports. Exemption as medium. to advertising |