15 U.S.C. § 70 — Definitions

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This section defines key terms used in this subchapter, such as "fiber," "yarn," "fabric," and "textile fiber product." It also defines "person," "commerce," "Commission," and "ultimate consumer." These definitions set the scope of the whole subchapter.

(a) "Person" means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, an association, or any other kind of business. (b) "Fiber" or "textile fiber" means a unit of matter that can be spun into yarn or made into fabric. This includes bonding it or interlacing it — by weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, twisting, or webbing. It is the basic building block of textile products. (c) "Natural fiber" means any fiber that already exists as a fiber in nature. (d) "Manufactured fiber" means any fiber that a manufacturing process creates from something that was not a fiber at any earlier stage. (e) "Yarn" means a strand of textile fiber that is ready to be woven, knitted, braided, felted, webbed, or otherwise turned into fabric. (f) "Fabric" means any material made — by weaving, knitting, felting, or another process — from or combined with any natural fiber, manufactured fiber, yarn, or substitute for these. (g) "Household textile articles" means clothing, costumes and accessories, draperies, floor coverings, furniture coverings, bedding, and other textile goods of a type normally used in a home. This applies no matter where the item is actually used. (h) "Textile fiber product" means three things: (1) any fiber, finished or not, used or meant to be used in household textile articles; (2) any yarn or fabric, finished or not, used or meant to be used in household textile articles; and (3) any household textile article made wholly or partly of yarn or fabric. It does not include a product that must be labeled under the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939. (i) "Affixed" means attached to the textile fiber product in any way. (j) "Commission" means the Federal Trade Commission. (k) "Commerce" means trade among the states, with foreign nations, within a Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, between one Territory and another, between a Territory and a State or foreign nation, or between the District of Columbia and a State, Territory, or foreign nation. (l) "Territory" includes the United States' insular possessions and any other Territory of the United States. (m) "Ultimate consumer" means a person who buys or trades for a textile fiber product with no plan to sell or trade it away again in any form.

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As used in this subchapter—

(a)

The term “person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or any other form of business enterprise.

(b)

The term “fiber” or “textile fiber” means a unit 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.

(d)

The term “manufactured fiber” means any fiber derived by a process of manufacture from any substance which, at any point in the manufacturing process, is not a 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 combination with, any natural or manufactured fiber, yarn, 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 [15 U.S.C. 68 et seq.].

(i)

The term “affixed” means attached to the textile fiber product in any manner.

(j)

The term “Commission” means the Federal Trade Commission.

(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.

(l)

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 who obtains a textile fiber product by purchase or exchange with no intent to sell or exchange such textile fiber product in any form.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 85–897, § 2, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1717.)

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1958Enacted · Pub. L. 85-897 · 72 Stat. 1717

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