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University of Michigan Law School

1949

Federal Trade Commission

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Delivered Prices: Doing Business Under The Present Law, Corwin D. Edwards Apr 1949

Delivered Prices: Doing Business Under The Present Law, Corwin D. Edwards

Michigan Law Review

What is involved in doing business under the present law concerning delivered prices? Since the ease or difficulty of doing business in accord with the law depends upon what the law permits and prohibits, to answer this question requires an assumption about what the law is. I shall assume that the scope of legally permissible action is that envisaged in the statement which the Federal Trade Commission issued to its staff and released to the public last October 12. This statement says, in effect, that businessmen are not required to sell f.o.b. mill or to adopt any particular form of …


Trade Regulations-Deceptive Practices, Earl R. Boonstra Feb 1949

Trade Regulations-Deceptive Practices, Earl R. Boonstra

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner, an importer, distributed catalogs among some 25,000 retailers describing his porcelain line as follows: "IMPORTED Hand Decorated 'Du Barry' Porcelain," and " 'Du BARRY' Porcelain table lamps are nationally famous as reproductions of rare, original French and English 'old pieces.'" The Federal Trade Commission found that the advertising impliedly represented that the origin was French or British, whereas the products were made in Japan. A cease and desist order was issued prohibiting use of the legend, "Imported-Du Barry,'' or any other legend suggesting French origin, without clearly disclosing the fact of import from Japan. Held, affirmed. The order …