United States Code

7 U.S.C. § 192

Unlawful practices enumerated

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Bills that would change it 18

  • S 4996 A bill to regulate market concentration and competition in the food and agriculture industry, and for other purposes. Amends · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 2818 Strengthening Antitrust Enforcement for Meatpacking Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 2670 Fairness for Small-Scale Farmers and Ranchers Act Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 4979 Fairness for Small-Scale Farmers and Ranchers Act Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 797 Farm System Reform Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 798 Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 1167 Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 270 Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 271 Farm System Reform Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 96 Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 6250 Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act of 2021 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 3285 Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act of 2021 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 4421 Farm System Reform Act of 2021 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 2332 Farm System Reform Act of 2021 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 1393 Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2021 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 300 Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2021 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 3221 Farm System Reform Act of 2019 Amends · introduced · 116th Congress
  • S 813 A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for sl... Amends · introduced · 115th Congress

The law today

From the official United States Code, current through Public Law 119-124.

It shall be unlawful for any packer or swine contractor with respect to livestock, meats, meat food products, or livestock products in unmanufactured form, or for any live poultry dealer with respect to live poultry, to: (a) Engage in or use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device; or (b) Make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person or locality in any respect, or subject any particular person or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect; or (c) Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other packer, swine contractor, or any live poultry dealer, or buy or otherwise receive from or for any other packer, swine contractor, or any live poultry dealer, any article for the purpose or with the effect of apportioning the supply between any such persons, if such apportionment has the tendency or effect of restraining commerce or of creating a monopoly; or (d) Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other person, or buy or otherwise receive from or for any other person, any article for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices, or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing in, any article, or of restraining commerce; or (e) Engage in any course of business or do any act for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices, or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing in, any article, or of restraining commerce; or (f) Conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person (1) to apportion territory for carrying on business, or (2) to apportion purchases or sales of any article, or (3) to manipulate or control prices; or (g) Conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person to do, or aid or abet the doing of, any act made unlawful by subdivisions (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e).
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