Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition
§ 64. Unfair methods of competition in export trade
Statutory text
The prohibition against “unfair methods of competition” and the remedies provided for enforcing said prohibition contained in the Federal Trade Commission Act [15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.] shall be construed as extending to unfair methods of competition used in export trade against competitors engaged in export trade, even though the acts constituting such unfair methods are done without the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
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.
Pub. L. 65–50 § 4 · 40 Stat. 270
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 64
(Apr. 10, 1918, ch. 50, § 4, 40 Stat. 517.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Apr. 10, 1918, ch. 50, § 4, 40 Stat. 517.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That paragraph two, section fifteen, of the Act to regulate commerce approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, as amended, be further amended by adding the following: Restriction on filing increased rales, etc. “Provided further, until January first, nineteen hundred and twenty, no increased rate, fare, charge, or classification shall be filed except Approval by Commission. after approval thereof has been secured from the commission. Such approval may, in the discretion of the commission, be given without formal hearing, and in such case shall not affect any subsequent proceeding relative to such rate, fare, charge, or classification.”
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Federal Trade Commission Act, referred to in text, is act Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, 38 Stat. 717, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 41 et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 58 of this title and Tables.
Codification
“Federal Trade Commission Act [15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.]” substituted in text for “Act entitled ‘An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes,’ approved September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and fourteen” on authority of section 18 of that Act [15 U.S.C. 58].
Credits
(Apr. 10, 1918, ch. 50, § 4, 40 Stat. 517.)