---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 70c"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "70c"
heading: "Removal of stamp, tag, label, or other identification"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/70c"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter V — Textile Fiber Products Identification"
---

# §70c. Removal of stamp, tag, label, or other identification

- (a) **Removal or mutilation after shipment in commerce—** After shipment of a [textile fiber product](/usc/15/70.md?p=h) in [commerce](/usc/15/70.md?p=k) it shall be unlawful, except as provided in this subchapter, to remove or mutilate, or cause or participate in the removal or mutilation of, prior to the time any [textile fiber product](/usc/15/70.md?p=h) is sold and delivered to the [ultimate consumer](/usc/15/70.md?p=m), any stamp, tag, label, or other identification required by this subchapter to be [affixed](/usc/15/70.md?p=i) to such [textile fiber product](/usc/15/70.md?p=h), and any [person](/usc/15/70.md?p=a) violating this section shall be guilty of an unfair method of competition, and an unfair or deceptive act or practice, under the Federal Trade Commission Act [[15 U.S.C. 41](/usc/15/41.md) et seq.].
- (b) **Substitution of stamp, tag, etc.** Any [person](/usc/15/70.md?p=a)—
  - (1) introducing, selling, advertising, or offering for sale, in [commerce](/usc/15/70.md?p=k), or importing into the United States, a [textile fiber product](/usc/15/70.md?p=h) subject to the provisions of this subchapter, or
  - (2) selling, advertising, or offering for sale a [textile fiber product](/usc/15/70.md?p=h) whether in its original [state](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) or contained in other [textile fiber products](/usc/15/70.md?p=h), which has been shipped, advertised, or offered for sale, in [commerce](/usc/15/70.md?p=k),

  may substitute for the stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification required to be [affixed](/usc/15/70.md?p=i) to such textile product pursuant to [section 70b(b) of this title](/usc/15/70b.md?p=b), a stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification conforming to the requirements of [section 70b(b) of this title](/usc/15/70b.md?p=b), and such substituted stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification shall show the name or other identification issued and registered by the [Commission](/usc/15/70.md?p=j) of the [person](/usc/15/70.md?p=a) making the substitution.

- (c) **Affixing of stamp, tag, etc. to individual unit of broken package—** If any [person](/usc/15/70.md?p=a) other than the [ultimate consumer](/usc/15/70.md?p=m) breaks a package which bears a stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification conforming to the requirements of [section 70b of this title](/usc/15/70b.md), and if such package contains one or more units of a [textile fiber product](/usc/15/70.md?p=h) to which a stamp, tag, label, or other identification conforming to the requirements of [section 70b of this title](/usc/15/70b.md) is not [affixed](/usc/15/70.md?p=i), such [person](/usc/15/70.md?p=a) shall affix a stamp, tag, label, or other identification bearing the information on the stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification attached to such broken package to each unit of [textile fiber product](/usc/15/70.md?p=h) taken from such broken package.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–897, § 5, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1720.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

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