How to Contact the Federal Trade Commission

Personnel Locator for Individual Employees:  202-326-2000

When you dial this number, you will be asked to enter an extension or a person's name (last name, then first name if needed). You will be connected with the person's phone mail and may leave a message in the phone mail box.

 

General Information Locator:  202-326-2222

Menu options will connect you with the press office, human resources office, premerger notification, the Consumer Response Center, and other frequently called offices.

Consumer Protection Issues

Consumer protection matters include:

Consumer fraud
Consumer privacy
Credit reports
Debt collection
False or misleading advertising
Internet/electronic commerce
Investment fraud

Leasing

Lending

Mail order

Telemarketing

Tobacco advertising

Warranties

In our Consumer Protection section you can find a variety of information on credit, health and fitness, buying and working at home, investments, telemarketing, the Internet and e-commerce, and other products and services.

The information you volunteer to send to us is up to you. To learn how we may use the information you provide, please read our Privacy Policy. There are three ways you can contact the Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Response Center:

Phone: toll-free 1-877-FTC-HELP (382-4357)

Regular mail:

Federal Trade Commission
CRC-240
Washington, D.C. 20580

Electronically: If you have a complaint about a particular company or organization, use our secure complaint form.

While we do not resolve individual consumer disputes, your complaint, comment, or inquiry may help us spot a pattern of law violations requiring law enforcement action. It can also help us recognize and tell people about larger trends affecting consumers.

Here's how you can contact us about RN numbers and Textile, wool, and fur matters.

Electronically: Our new business guide, Threading Your Way Through the Labeling Requirements Under the Textile and Wool Act, will answer most of your questions about labeling requirements, including how to get an RN number.

 

You can also use our online RN Lookup Database to look up particular RN numbers and identify RN holders.

 

Regular mail: If you are a business with questions about RN numbers or textile, wool, or fur matters you can write to us at:

Textile Section
Division of Enforcement
Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.,
Washington, DC 20580

Phone: 202-326-3553 for RN and related information

 

Fax: 202-326-3197 to send completed RN application forms and requests to identify RN holders (limit 10)

Antitrust and competition matters include:

General inquiries and complaints

Questions about pending FTC cases

Anticompetitive practices

Boycotts

Monopolization

Price discrimination

Price fixing

Trade associations

Phone: 202-326-3300

Premerger matters include:

Hart-Scott-Rodino inquiries

Premerger early termination

Premerger filings

Premerger notification

Phone: 202-326-3100

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Last Updated: Thursday, May 16, 2002