---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 C.F.R. § 423.5"
title: "16"
number: "423.5"
heading: "Unfair or deceptive acts or practices."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/16/423.5"
---

# §423.5. Unfair or deceptive acts or practices.

- (a) **Textile wearing apparel and certain piece goods.** In connection with the sale, in or affecting commerce, of textile wearing apparel and certain piece goods, it is an unfair or deceptive act or practice for a manufacturer or importer:
  - (1) To fail to disclose to a purchaser, prior to sale, instructions which prescribe a regular care procedure necessary for the ordinary use and enjoyment of the product;
  - (2) To fail to warn a purchaser, prior to sale, when the product cannot be cleaned by any cleaning procedure, without being harmed;
  - (3) To fail to warn a purchaser, prior to sale, when any part of the prescribed regular care procedure, which a consumer or professional cleaner could reasonably be expected to use, would harm the product or others being cleaned with it;
  - (4) To fail to provide regular care instructions and warnings, except as to piece goods, in a form that can be referred to by the consumer throughout the useful life of the product;
  - (5) To fail to possess, prior to sale, a reasonable basis for all regular care information disclosed to the purchaser.
- (b) **Violations of this regulation.** The Commission has adopted this regulation to prevent the unfair or deceptive acts or practices, defined in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section. Each manufacturer or importer covered by this regulation must comply with the requirements in §§ [423.2](/cfr/16/423.2.md) and [423.6 through 423.8](/cfr/16/423.6..423.8.md) of this regulation. Any manufacturer or importer who complies with the requirements of §§ [423.2](/cfr/16/423.2.md) and [423.6 through 423.8](/cfr/16/423.6..423.8.md) does not violate this regulation.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 38 Stat. 717, as amended; (15 U.S.C. 41, et seq. )

### Source

Source: 48 FR 22743, May 20, 1983; 48 FR 24869, June 3, 1983, unless otherwise noted.