Common Or Toilet Pin Industry

16 CFR Part 52 · Trade practice rules · in the Code of Federal Regulations 1938-1971 (9 annual editions)

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Latest edition: Library of Congress, 1971 CFR · Earliest edition: 1938 CFR

Text (1971 edition, OCR)

Chapter I[—Federal Trade Commission

directly to give, or offer to give, or permit
or cause to be given, money or anything
of value to agents, employees, or repre-
sentatives of customers or prospective
customers or to agents, employees, or
representatives of competitors’ customers
or prospective customers, without the
knowledge of their employers or prin-
cipals, as an inducement to influence
their employers or principals to purchase
or contract to purchase products manu-
factured or sold by such industry mem-
ber or the maker of such gift or offer,
or to influence such employers or prin-
cipals to refrain from dealing in the
products of competitors or from dealing
or contracting to deal with competitors.
[Rule 19]

§ 51.20 Unlawful interference with com-
petitors’ purchases or sales.

It is an unfair trade practice for any
member of the industry, by means of any
monopolistic practices or through com-
bination, conspiracy, coerclon, boycott,
threats, or any other unlawful means, di-
rectly or indirectly, to intorfere with a
competitor’s right to purchase his ma-
terials and supplies from whomsoever he
chooses, or to sell his product to whom-
soever he chooses. [Rule 20]

§ 51.21 Aiding or abetting use of unfair
trade practices.

It is an unfair trade practice for any
person, firm, or corporation to aid, abet,
coerce, or induce another, directly or in-
directly, to use or promote the use of
any unfair trade practice specified in
this part. [Rule 21]

PART 52—COMMON OR TOILET-
PIN INDUSTRY

Group I
Sec.
52.3 Sales below cost.
62.4 Imitation of trade-marks, trade
names, etc.
52.5 Mislabeling.
52.6 Deceptive selling methods.
Group II
52.101 Publication of price Msts and terms
of sale.
62.102 False invoicing.

AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 62
issued under secs. 6(g), 5, 38 Stat. 722, 719;
15 U.S.C. 46(g), 45, unless otherwise noted.

Source: The provisions of this Part 52
contained in trade practice rules, Common
or Toilet-Pin Industry, FTC, Sept. 3, 1931,
unless otherwise noted.

§ 51,102

Group I
§ 52.3 Sales below cost.

The selling of goods below cost with the
intent and with the effect of injuring a
coinpetitor and where the effect may be
to substantially lessen competition or
tend to create a monopoly or to unrea-
sonably restrain trade is an unfair trade
practice.

§ 52.4 Imitation of trade-marks, trade
names, etc.

The imitation of the trade-marks,
trade names, slogans, or other marks of
identification of competitors, having the
tendency and capacity to mislead or de-
ceive purchasers or prospective pur-
chasers, is an unfair trade practice.

§ 52.5 Mislabeling.

To label boxes or papers of iron or steel
pins with the words “bank”, “dress-
makers’, “silk”, “satin”, “voile”, “chif-
fon”, or similar words, when such
deceives the public into the belief that
such pins are rustproof or suitable for
the fabrics above mentioned, is an un-
fair trade practice.

§ 52.6 Deceptive selling metbods.

The sale or offering for sale of any
product of the industry by any false
means or device which has the tendency
and capacity to mislead or deceive cus-
tomers or prospective customers as to
the quantity, quality, substance, or size
of such product is an unfair trade
practice.

Group IT

§ 52.101 Publication of price bsts and

terms of sale.

(a) The industry approves the prac-
tice of each individual member of the
industry independently publishing and
circulating to the purchasing trade its
own price lists.

(b) The industry hereby records its
approval of the practice of making the
terms of sale a part of all published price
schedules.

§ 52.102 False invoicing.

Withholding from, or inserting in the
invoice, statements which make the in-
voice a false record, wholly or in part, of
the transaction represented on the face
thereof, is condemned by the industry.

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