Appendix D

TEXTILE FIBER PRODUCTS ACQUIRED PRIOR TO MARCH 3, 1960

The Federal Trade Commission today announced its policy with regard to Sec 15 of the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act, which states in part that "The Commission shall provide for the exception of any textile fiber product acquired prior to the effective date of this Act."

The announcement reads:

"The exception provided by Sec 15 of the Act shall apply to textile fiber products acquired prior to the effective date of the Act (March 3, 1960) where such products are marketed or handled on or after March 3, 1960, in the same basic form as that in which they were acquired, but shall not apply to textile fiber products manufactured or processed on or after March 3, 1960, from other textile products acquired prior to that date where such manufacturing or processing changes the basic form of the textile fiber product to the extent that it becomes a different type of product. For example, the exception would apply to yarns, fabrics or garments acquired prior to March 3, 1960, which are marketed or handled on or after that date as yarns, fabrics, or garments, respectively, without any change in the form of such products, but such exception would not apply to fabrics manufactured on or after March 3, 1960, from yarns or fibers acquired prior to that date, or to garments manufactured on or after March 3, 1960, , ' from fabrics acquired prior to that date. Fabrics acquired in the greige before March 3, 1960, but processed or finished after that date would not lose their right to exception as a result of such processing or finishing operation.

"On or after March 3, 1960, any person who desires to claim the exception provided by Sec 15 of the Act must be able to establish by records or other competent means that the products as to which he claims the exception were acquired in the same basic form prior to March 3, 1960, and that he is entitled to the exception claimed."

Announcement dated June 1, 1959.


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