Accident And Health Insurance Industry [revoked, 27 F.R. 5398, June 7, 1962]

16 CFR Part 29 · Trade practice rules · in the Code of Federal Regulations 1966-1966 (1 annual editions)

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Text (1966 edition, OCR)

§ 35.0

Title 16-~Chapter I

§ 35.2

SUBCHAPTER B—TRADE PRACTICE CONFERENCE RULES

PART 21—CORSET, BRASSIERE, AND
ALLIED PRODUCTS INDUSTRY
Group I

Sec.

21.4 Identification and disclosure of fiber

or material content. [Revoked]

§ 21.4 Identification and disclosure of
fiber or material content.

[Revoked, 30 F.R. 790, Jan. 26, 1965]

PART 29—-ACCIDENT AND HEALTH
INSURANCE INDUSTRY tREVOKED,
27 F.R. 5398, JUNE 7, 1962]

PART 35—-WALL COVERINGS
INDUSTRY [REVISED]

Sec.

35.0 Definitions.

35.1 Misrepresentation as to character of
business.

35.2 Misrepresenting products as conform-
ing to standards.

35.3 Guarantees, warranties, etc.

35.4 Imperfects, irregulars, etc.

35.5 Deceptive use or imitation or simu-
lation of trade or corporate names,
trade-marks, etc.

35.6 Commercial bribery.

35.7 False invoicing.

35.8 Substitution of products.

35.9 Defamation of competitors or false
disparagement of their products.

35.10 Unfair threats of infringement suits.

35.11 Tie-in sales.

35.12 Deception (general).

35.13 Misuse of terms “jobs,” ‘“close-outs,”
“discontinued lines,’ ‘“‘special bar-
gains,” etc.

35.14 Use of the word “free.”

35.15 Deceptive pricing.

35.16 Disclosure of foreign origin.

35.17 Prohibited forms of trade restraints
(unlawful price fixing, etc.)

35.13 Prohibited discrimination.

35.19 Aiding or abetting use of unfair trade

practices.

AUTHORITY: §§ 35.0 to 35.19 issued under
sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interpret
or apply sec. 5, 38 Stat. 719, as amended;
15 U.S.C. 45.

Source: The provisions of this Part 35
appear at 27 F.R. 6201, June 30, 1962, unless
otherwise noted.

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§ 35.0 Definitions.

As used in these rules the terms “In-
dustry Member” and “Industry Product”
shall have the following meaning:

(a) Industry member. Any person,
firm, corporation or organization en-
gaged in the manufacture, fabrication,
processing or sale of industry products,
including screen or hand printers, im-
porters, wholesalers, distributors, job-
bers, retail dealers, decorating contrac-
tors, decorators and paperhangers.

(b) Industry products. Wall cover-
ings composed in whole or in part of
basic materials such as, but not Hmited
to, paper, cloth, plastics, glass or com-
binations thereof, which are by custom
supplied in rolls or sheets and sold to
consumers through retail wall covering
outlets, and which are applied with an
adhesive to produce a permanent or
semi-permanent bond to the surface to
which they have been applied. Excluded
as products of the industry are ceramic
and plastic tiles and commercial heavy
duty wall coverings which are ordinarily
sold by the manufacturers and/or dis-
tributors through building supply con-

cerns to installers, contractors, and
builders.
§ 35.1 Misrepresentation as to char-

acter of business.

It is an unfair trade practice for any
person to represent, directly or indi-
rectly, through the use of any word or
term in his corporate or trade name, in
his advertising, or otherwise, that he is

a manufacturer, machine, screen or
hand printer, processor, converter,
wholesaler, jobber, dealer contractor,

decorator or importer of wall coverings
or that he owns or controls a factory
making or processing such products, or
has connections abroad through which
imports are secured, or maintains of-
fices abroad, when such is not the fact,
or in any other manner to misrepresent
the character, extent, volume, or type
of his busmess. [Rule 1]

§ 35.2 Misrepresenting products as con-
forming to standards.

In connection with the sale or offering
for sale of wall coverings it is an unfair
trade practice to represent, through ad-
vertising or otherwise, that such wall