15 U.S.C. § 68a — Misbranding declared unlawful

submitted 86 years ago by ch. 871 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 206 words · no verdicts yet

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It's illegal, and an unfair trade practice, to bring a misbranded wool product into commerce, make it for that purpose, or sell, ship, or deliver it. This doesn't apply to common carriers just transporting it, or to products made for export and branded to the buyer's specifications.

This section makes misbranded wool products illegal to move through commerce. Introducing, or manufacturing for introduction, into commerce — or selling, transporting, or distributing in commerce — any wool product that is misbranded (as this subchapter or its rules define misbranding) is unlawful. It also counts as an unfair method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act. The section also separately targets anyone who manufactures, delivers for shipment, ships, sells, or offers for sale a misbranded wool product in commerce, calling that person guilty of the same unfair-competition and unfair-practice violations. Two exceptions apply. (a) A common carrier or contract carrier isn't covered just for shipping or delivering a wool product in the ordinary course of its transportation business. (b) Someone isn't covered for manufacturing, delivering, shipping, selling, or offering a wool product for export from the U.S. to a foreign country, if it's branded to match the purchaser's specifications and that country's laws.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The introduction, or manufacture for introduction, into commerce, or the sale, transportation, or distribution, in commerce, of any wool product which is misbranded within the meaning of this subchapter or the rules and regulations hereunder, 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; and any person who shall manufacture or deliver for shipment or ship or sell or offer for sale in commerce, any such wool product which is misbranded within the meaning of this subchapter and the rules and regulations hereunder is guilty of an unfair method of competition, and an unfair and deceptive act or practice, in commerce within the meaning of the Federal Trade Commission Act.

This section shall not apply—

(a) To any common carrier or contract carrier in respect to a wool product shipped or delivered for shipment in commerce in the ordinary course of its business; or

(b) To any person manufacturing, delivering for shipment, shipping, selling, or offering for sale, for exportation from the United States to any foreign country a wool product branded in accordance with the specifications of the purchaser and in accordance with the laws of such country.

Source credit: (Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 871, § 3, 54 Stat. 1129.)

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1940Enacted · Act of Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 871 · 54 Stat. 1129

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