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15 USC § 69e - Name guide for fur products 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s69e"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "15 USC § 69e - Name guide for fur products"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "69e"
section_name: "Name guide for fur products"
chapter_number: 2
chapter_name: "FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "LABELING OF FUR PRODUCTS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 8, 1951, ch. 298, § 7, 65 Stat. 179.)"
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# § 69e. Name guide for fur products

**(a)** **Fur Products Name Guide** August 8, 1951

The Commission shall, with the assistance and cooperation of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior, within six months after , issue, after holding public hearings, a register setting forth the names of hair, fleece, and fur-bearing animals, which shall be known as the Fur Products Name Guide. The names used shall be the true English names for the animals in question, or in the absence of a true English name for an animal, the name by which such animal can be properly identified in the United States.

**(b)** **Additions and deletions; public hearing** The Commission may, from time to time, with the assistance and cooperation of the Department of Agriculture and Department of the Interior, after holding public hearings, add to or delete from such register the name of any hair, fleece, or fur-bearing animal.

**(c)** **Prevention of confusion or deception** If the name of an animal (as set forth in the Fur Products Name Guide) connotes a geographical origin or significance other than the true country or place of origin of such animal, the Commission may require whenever such name is used in setting forth the information required by this subchapter, such qualifying statements as it may deem necessary to prevent confusion or deception.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 8, 1951, ch. 298, § 7, 65 Stat. 179.)

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### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of Federal Trade Commission, with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, § 1, eff. , 15 F.R. 3175, , set out under .