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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 1 — Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade

§ 14. Sale, etc., on agreement not to use goods of competitor

Statutory text

It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, to lease or make a sale or contract for sale of goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities, whether patented or unpatented, for use, consumption, or resale within the United States or any Territory thereof or the District of Columbia or any insular possession or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or fix a price charged therefor, or discount from, or rebate upon, such price, on the condition, agreement, or understanding that the lessee or purchaser thereof shall not use or deal in the goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities of a competitor or competitors of the lessor or seller, where the effect of such lease, sale, or contract for sale or such condition, agreement, or understanding may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 63–323 § 3 · 38 Stat. 730

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 14

    (Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 3, 38 Stat. 731.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 3, 38 Stat. 731.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, Leases, sales, etc., binding purchaser not to use goods of competitors, unlawful. in the course of such commerce, to lease or make a sale or contract for sale of goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies or other commodities, whether patented or unpatented, for use. consumption or resale within the United States or any Territory thereof or the District of Columbia or any insular possession or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or fix a price charged therefor, or discount from, or rebate upon, such price, on the condition, agreement or understanding that the lessee or purchaser thereof shall not use or deal in the goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies or other commodities of a competitor or competitors of the lessor or seller, where the effect of such lease, sale, or contract for sale If lessening competition, etc. or such condition, agreement or understanding may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 3, 38 Stat. 731.)

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