United States Code

15 U.S.C. § 12

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Bills that would change it 29

  • S 4434 CLEAN Mergers Act Amends · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HR 8184 Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act Amends · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 4147 Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act Amends · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 3937 Homes for American Families Act Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 1059 One Agency Act Amends · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 1060 AMERICA Act Amends · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 130 Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2025 Amends · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 2597 Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 3081 NOPEC Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 1073 AMERICA Act Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 678 NOPEC Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 7839 Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 7101 Prohibiting Anticompetitive Mergers Act of 2022 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 977 NOPEC Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 4258 Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 3847 Prohibiting Anticompetitive Mergers Act of 2022 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 3267 Consolidation Prevention and Competition Promotion Act of 2021 Amends 12(a) · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 2926 One Agency Act Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 2039 TEAM Act Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 2393 NOPEC Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 1074 Trust-Busting for the Twenty-First Century Act Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 633 One Agency Act Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 225 Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021 Amends 12(a) · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 948 NOPEC Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • S 370 NOPEC Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • HR 5904 NOPEC Amends its part · introduced · 115th Congress
  • S 2847 Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018 Amends · introduced · 115th Congress
  • HR 5645 Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018 Amends · introduced · 115th Congress
  • HR 659 Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2017 Amends · introduced · 115th Congress

The law today

From the official United States Code, current through Public Law 119-121.

(a) “Antitrust laws,” as used herein, includes the Act entitled “An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies,” approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety; sections seventy-three to seventy-six, inclusive, of an Act entitled “An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,” of August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four; an Act entitled “An Act to amend sections seventy-three and seventy-six of the Act of August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled ‘An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,’ ” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and thirteen; and also this Act. “Commerce,” as used herein, means trade or commerce among the several States and with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia or any Territory of the United States and any State, Territory, or foreign nation, or between any insular possessions or other places under the jurisdiction of the United States, or between any such possession or place and any State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia or any foreign nation, or within the District of Columbia or any Territory or any insular possession or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States: Provided, That nothing in this Act contained shall apply to the Philippine Islands. The word “person” or “persons” wherever used in this Act shall be deemed to include corporations and associations existing under or authorized by the laws of either the United States, the laws of any of the Territories, the laws of any State, or the laws of any foreign country. (b) This Act may be cited as the “Clayton Act”.
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