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Disciosure of foreign assembly not required for product made of domestic components

74 F.T.C. 1660 · Aug. 23, 1968 · Digest No. 276

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No. 276. Disciosure of foreign assembly not required for product made of domestic components.

The Commission advised a requesting party that in the absence of facts indicating actual deception disclosure of the foreign assembly of a product made of domestic components would not be required.

The domestic components accounted for approximately 90 percent of the manufacturing cost of the finished product; foreign assembly accounted for approximately 10 percent of the cost of the finished product. (File No. 683 7140, released Aug. 23, 1968.