Southern Mixed Feed Manufacturers
16 CFR Part 27 · Trade practice rules · in the Code of Federal Regulations 1938-1959 (4 annual editions)
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Latest edition: Library of Congress, 1959 CFR · Earliest edition: 1938 CFR
Text (1959 edition, OCR)
Chapter Il—Federal Part 27—Southern Mixed Feed Manufacturers [Revoked] CoptricaTion: Part 27 was revoked, 19 F. R. 6066, Sept. 21, 1954. Part 27—Brick and Structural Clay Tile and Allied Products Industry [Added] Sec. 27.0 The industry and its products defined. GROUP I 27.1 Prohibited discrimination. 27.2 Misrepresentation and deception (general). 27.3. Misrepresentation as to character of business. 27.4 Deceptive representations as to prod- ucts conforming to a standard or specification. 27.6 Deception as to composition. 276 Guarantees, warranties, etc. 27.7 Substitution of products, 27.8 Deceptive use of trade or corporate names, trade-marks, etc. 27.9 Imitation or simulation of trade- marks, trade names, etc. 27.10 False invoicing. 27.11 Defamation of competitors or false disparagement of their products. 27.12 Inducing breach of contract. 27.18 Enticing away employees of competi- tors. 27,14 Commercial bribery. 27.15 Procurement of competitors’ confiden- tial information . 27.16 ‘Tie-in sales; coercing purchase of one product as a prerequisite to the pur- chase of other products. 27.17 Arrangements to exclude sales of com- petitors’ products. 27.18 Prohibited forms of trade restralnts (unlawful price fixing, etc.). 27.19 Unlawful interference with competi- tors’ purchases or sales. 27.20 Consignment distribution. AuTHORITY: §§ 27.0 to 27.20 issued under sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interpret or apply sec. 5, 38 Stat. 719, as amended; 15 U~. 8. C. 45. Source: §§ 27.0 to 27.20 appear at 21 PF. R. 3830, June 5, 1956. _ $37.0 The industry and its products defined. (a) Products of the industry respecting which these rules are promul- gated consist of any kind or type of building units or materials which are, or are represented directly or indirectly as being, brick or structural tile. 1As here used, the term “structural tile” does not include the veneer types of tile used for floor or wall surfacing. Trade Commission § 27.1 (b) Members of the industry are per- sons, firms, corporations, and organiza- tions engaged in the manufacture, sale, offering for sale, or distribution of any such products. GROUP I § 27.1 Prohibited discrimination *— (a) Prohibited discriminatory prices, or rebates, refunds, discounts, credits, etc., which effect unlawful price discrimina- tion. It is an unfair trade practice for any member of the industry engaged in commerce, in the course of such com- merce, to grant or allow, secretly or openly, directly or indirectly, any rebate, refund, discount, credit, or other form of price differential, where such rebate, re- fund, discount, credit, or other form of price differential, effects a discrimina- tion in price between different purchas- ers of goods of like grade and quality, where either or any of the purchases in- volved therein are in commerce, and where the effect thereof may be substan- tially to lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of com- merce, or to injure, destroy, or prevent competition with any person who either grants or knowingly receives the benefit of such discrimination, or with customers of either of them: Provided, however, (1) That the goods involved in any such transaction are sold for use, con- sumption, or resale within any place un- der the jurisdiction of the United States, and are not purchased by schools, colleges, universities, public libraries, churches, hospitals, or charitable insti- tutions not operated for profit, as sup- plies for their own use. (2) That nothing contained in this paragraph shall prevent differentials which make only due allowance for dif- ferences in the cost of manufacture, sale, or delivery resulting from the differing 2 As used in this section, the word “com- merce” means “trade or commerce among the several States and with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia or any Territory of the United States and any State, Territory, or foreign nation, or between any insular possessions or other places under the jurisdiction of the United States, or between any such possession or place and any State or Territory of the United States or the Dis- trict of Columbla or any foreign nation, or within the District of Columbia or any Ter- ritory or any insular possession or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States.” Page 183