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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 70. Definitions
As used in this subchapter -
(a) The term "person" means an individual, partnership,
corporation, association or any other form of business enterprise.
(b) The term "fiber" or "textile fiber" means a unit of matter
which is capable of being spun into a yarn or made into a fabric by
bonding or by interlacing in a variety of methods including
weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, twisting, or webbing, and
which is the basic structural element of textile products.
(c) The term "natural fiber" means any fiber that exists as such
in the natural state.
(d) The term "manufactured fiber" means any fiber derived by a
process of manufacture from any substance which, at any point in
the manufacturing process, is not a fiber.
(e) The term "yarn" means a strand of textile fiber in a form
suitable for weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, webbing, or
otherwise fabricating into a fabric.
(f) The term "fabric" means any material woven, knitted, felted,
or otherwise produced from, or in combination with, any natural or
manufactured fiber, yarn, or substitute therefor.
(g) The term "household textile articles" means articles of
wearing apparel, costumes and accessories, draperies, floor
coverings, furnishings, beddings, and other textile goods of a type
customarily used in a household regardless of where used in fact.
(h) The term "textile fiber product" means -
(1) any fiber, whether in the finished or unfinished state,
used or intended for use in household textile articles;
(2) any yarn or fabric, whether in the finished or unfinished
state, used or intended for use in household textile articles;
and
(3) any household textile article made in whole or in part of
yarn or fabric;
except that such term does not include a product required to be
labeled under the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939 [15 U.S.C. 68
et seq.].
(i) The term "affixed" means attached to the textile fiber
product in any manner.
(j) The term "Commission" means the Federal Trade Commission.
(k) The term "commerce" means commerce among the several States
or with foreign nations, or in any Territory of the United States
or in the District of Columbia, or between any such Territory and
another, or between any such Territory and any State or foreign
nation or between the District of Columbia and any State or
Territory or foreign nation.
(l) The term "Territory" includes the insular possessions of the
United States, and also any Territory of the United States.
(m) The term "ultimate consumer" means a person who obtains a
textile fiber product by purchase or exchange with no intent to
sell or exchange such textile fiber product in any form.
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