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Foreign origin disclosure

68 F.T.C. 1270 · date not parsed · Digest No. 8

source volume section (68 F.T.C. 1270)

Text is machine-OCR of the printed volume and may contain errors. Advisory opinions are the Commission's views on proposed conduct, not binding orders.

No. 8. Foreign origin disclosure.

An American manufacturer has been advised that the Federal Trade Commission would have no objection to its proposed manner ADVISORY OPINION DIGESTS 1271 of disclosing the origin of an oflke machinery unit containing a foreign-made part.

The label considered by the Commission identifies the foreign part and the country in which it was made and states that the manufacturer in question has manufactured the remainder of the unit and assembled it in this country. (File No. 653 7052, released Nov . 23 1965.