---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2311"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2311"
heading: "Applicability to other laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2311"
units:
  - "Chapter 50 — Consumer Product Warranties"
---

# §2311. Applicability to other laws

- (a) **Federal Trade Commission Act and Federal Seed Act—**
  - (1) Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to repeal, invalidate, or supersede the Federal Trade Commission Act [[15 U.S.C. 41](/usc/15/41.md) et seq.] or any statute defined therein as an Antitrust Act.
  - (2) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to repeal, invalidate, or supersede the Federal Seed Act [[7 U.S.C. 1551](/usc/7/1551.md) et seq.] and nothing in this chapter shall apply to seed for planting.
- (b) **Rights, remedies, and liabilities—**
  - (1) Nothing in this chapter shall invalidate or restrict any right or [remedy](/usc/15/2301.md?p=10) of any [consumer](/usc/15/2301.md?p=3) under [State law](/usc/15/2301.md?p=15) or any other [Federal law](/usc/15/2301.md?p=15).
  - (2) Nothing in this chapter (other than sections [2308](/usc/15/2308.md) and [2304(a)(2)](/usc/15/2304.md?p=a-2) and (4) of this title) shall (A) affect the liability of, or impose liability on, any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) for personal injury, or (B) supersede any provision of [State law](/usc/15/2301.md?p=15) regarding consequential damages for injury to the [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) or other injury.
- (c) **State warranty laws—**
  - (1) Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b) and in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a [State](/usc/15/2301.md?p=15) requirement—
    - (A) which relates to labeling or disclosure with respect to [written warranties](/usc/15/2301.md?p=6) or performance thereunder;
    - (B) which is within the scope of an applicable requirement of sections [2302](/usc/15/2302.md), [2303](/usc/15/2303.md), and [2304](/usc/15/2304.md) of this title (and rules implementing such sections), and
    - (C) which is not identical to a requirement of section [2302](/usc/15/2302.md), [2303](/usc/15/2303.md), or [2304](/usc/15/2304.md) of this title (or a rule thereunder),

    shall not be applicable to [written warranties](/usc/15/2301.md?p=6) complying with such sections (or rules thereunder).

  - (2) If, upon application of an appropriate [State](/usc/15/2301.md?p=15) agency, the [Commission](/usc/15/2301.md?p=2) determines (pursuant to rules issued in accordance with [section 2309 of this title](/usc/15/2309.md)) that any requirement of such [State](/usc/15/2301.md?p=15) covering any transaction to which this chapter applies (A) affords protection to [consumers](/usc/15/2301.md?p=3) greater than the requirements of this chapter and (B) does not unduly burden interstate [commerce](/usc/15/2301.md?p=14), then such [State](/usc/15/2301.md?p=15) requirement shall be applicable (notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection) to the extent specified in such determination for so long as the [State](/usc/15/2301.md?p=15) administers and enforces effectively any such greater requirement.
- (d) **Other Federal warranty laws—** This chapter (other than [section 2302(c) of this title](/usc/15/2302.md?p=c)) shall be inapplicable to any [written warranty](/usc/15/2301.md?p=6) the making or content of which is otherwise governed by [Federal law](/usc/15/2301.md?p=15). If only a portion of a [written warranty](/usc/15/2301.md?p=6) is so governed by [Federal law](/usc/15/2301.md?p=15), the remaining portion shall be subject to this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–637, title I, § 111, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2192.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Federal Trade Commission Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), is act Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, 38 Stat. 717, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 41 et seq.) of chapter 2 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 58 of this title and Tables.

The Antitrust Acts, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), are defined in section 44 of this title.

The Federal Seed Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), is act Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, 53 Stat. 1275, which is classified generally to chapter 37 (§ 1551 et seq.) of Title 7, Agriculture. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1551 of Title 7 and Tables.