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7 U.S.C. § 192 — Unlawful practices enumerated

submitted 105 years ago by ch. 64 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 328 words · no verdicts yet

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Meat packers, swine contractors, and live poultry dealers cannot use unfair or deceptive business practices. They cannot split markets, fix prices, or create monopolies with competitors. Teaming up to do any of these things is also illegal.

It is against the law for a packer, swine contractor, or live poultry dealer to do any of the following: (a) use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device; (b) give an undue or unreasonable advantage to one person or place, or put another person or place at an undue or unreasonable disadvantage; (c) sell to, or buy from, another packer, swine contractor, or live poultry dealer, in order to split up the market between them, if doing so tends to hurt competition or create a monopoly; (d) sell to, or buy from, anyone else, in order to control prices, or create a monopoly in buying, selling, or dealing in some product, or to hurt competition; (e) run a business or take any action meant to control prices, create a monopoly in some product, or hurt competition; (f) team up, combine, agree, or arrange with someone else to (1) split up business territory, (2) split up purchases or sales of a product, or (3) control prices; or (g) team up, combine, agree, or arrange with someone else to do, or help do, anything made illegal by (a) through (e).
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

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).

Source credit: (Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title II, § 202, 42 Stat. 161; Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title V, § 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 532, 49 Stat. 649; Pub. L. 85–909, § 1(1), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1749; Pub. L. 94–410, § 3(a), Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1249; Pub. L. 100–173, § 3, Nov. 23, 1987, 101 Stat. 917; Pub. L. 102–237, title X, § 1008(1), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1898; Pub. L. 106–78, title IX, § 912, Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1205; Pub. L. 107–171, title X, § 10502(b)(1), (2)(A), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 509, 510.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1921Enacted · Act of Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64 · 42 Stat. 161
  • 1921Amended · Act of Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64 · 49 Stat. 649
  • 1958Amended · Pub. L. 85-909 · 72 Stat. 1749
  • 1976Amended · Pub. L. 94-410 · 90 Stat. 1249
  • 1987Amended · Pub. L. 100-173 · 101 Stat. 917
  • 1991Amended · Pub. L. 102-237 · 105 Stat. 1898
  • 1999Amended · Pub. L. 106-78 · 113 Stat. 1205
  • 2002Amended · Pub. L. 107-171 · 116 Stat. 509, 510

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 64 on 1921-08-15.

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