15 U.S.C. § 68c — Stamp, tag, label, or other identification

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Whoever first makes or introduces a wool product into commerce must attach the required label and keep it attached until it's sold to a consumer. Removing or damaging that label to dodge the law is illegal. Packages of wool products sold to consumers generally need their own label too, with some exceptions.

(a) Affixing; retention until sale: Anyone manufacturing a wool product for introduction into commerce, or first introducing one into commerce, must affix the required stamp, tag, label, or other identification. That label — or a substitute containing identical content and fiber-content information (including for any other product it contains that makes up 5% or more by weight), plus the other information section 68b requires — must stay affixed to the wool product, whether it stays in its original form or ends up in a garment or other item made from it, until it's sold to the consumer. A proviso allows a substitute label to skip the manufacturer's name, as long as the name of the person who affixed the substitute appears instead. (b) Removal or mutilation: Anyone who removes or mutilates a wool product's label, or helps someone else do so, intending to violate this subchapter, is guilty of an unfair method of competition and an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act. (c) Packages of wool products: A package of wool products meant for sale to consumers counts as a wool product itself, and generally needs its own label with the section 68b information about what's inside. Two exceptions apply: the package doesn't need its own label if it's transparent enough that the product's own label can be clearly read through it; and for hosiery, a package doesn't need a label on each individual item inside if three things are true — the hosiery items are meant for consumer sale in that package, the package itself has a label with the required information about the hosiery inside, and that label's information applies equally to every hosiery item in the package.

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(a) Affixing; retention until sale

Any person manufacturing for introduction, or first introducing into commerce a wool product shall affix thereto the stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification required by this subchapter, and the same, or substitutes therefor containing identical information with respect to content of the wool product or any other products contained therein in an amount of 5 per centum or more by weight and other information required under section 68b of this title, shall be and remain affixed to such wool product, whether it remains in its original state or is contained in garments or other articles made in whole or in part therefrom, until sold to the consumer: Provided, That the name of the manufacturer of the wool product need not appear on the substitute stamp, tag, or label if the name of the person who affixes the substitute appears thereon.

(b) Removal or mutilation

Any person who shall cause or participate in the removal or mutilation of any stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification affixed to a wood 1 product with intent to violate the provisions of this subchapter, 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.

For the purposes of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, any package of wool products intended for sale to the ultimate consumer shall also be considered a wool product and shall have affixed to it a stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification bearing the information required by section 68b of this title, with respect to the wool products contained therein, unless such package of wool products is transparent to the extent that it allows for the clear reading of the stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification affixed to the wool product, or in the case of hosiery items this section shall not be construed as requiring the affixing of a stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification to each hosiery product contained in a package if (1) such hosiery products are intended for sale to the ultimate consumer in such package, (2) such package has affixed to it a stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification bearing, with respect to the hosiery products contained therein, the information required by section 68b of this title,2 and (3) the information on the stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification affixed to such package is equally applicable with respect to each hosiery product contained therein.

Source credit: (Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 871, § 5, 54 Stat. 1130; Pub. L. 98–417, title III, § 306, Sept. 24, 1984, 98 Stat. 1605.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1940Enacted · Act of Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 871 · 54 Stat. 1130
1984Amended · Pub. L. 98-417 · 98 Stat. 1605

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