Full/Raw
Text of 15 USC §8
Cite.
15 USC Sec. 8 01/05/99
Expcite.
Title 15 - Commerce and Trade; Chapter 1 - Monopolies and
Combinations In Restraint of Trade
Head. Sec.
8. Trusts in restraint of import trade illegal; penalty
Statute.
Every combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement,
or contract is declared to be contrary to public policy, illegal, and void
when the same is made by or between two or more persons or corporations,
either of whom, as agent or principal, is engaged in importing any article
from any foreign country into the United States, and when such
combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement, or contract is intended to
operate in restraint of lawful trade, or free competition in lawful trade
or commerce, or to increase the market price in any part of the United
States of any article or articles imported or intended to be imported into
the United States, or of any manufacture into which such imported article
enters or is intended to enter. Every person who shall be engaged in the
importation of goods or any commodity from any foreign country in
violation of this section, or who shall combine or conspire with another
to violate the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
in any court of the United States such person shall be fined in a sum not
less than $100 and not exceeding $5,000, and shall be further punished by
imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, for a term not less than
three months nor exceeding twelve months.
Source.
(Aug. 27, 1894, ch. 349, Sec. 73, 28 Stat. 570;
Feb. 12, 1913, ch. 40, 37 Stat. 667.)
Miscellaneous
Amendments.
Short Title.
Section 78
of act Aug. 27, 1894, as added by Pub. L. 94-435, title III, Sec.
305(d), Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1397, provided that: ''Sections 73,
74, 75, 76, and 77 of this Act (sections 8 to 11 of this title) may be
cited as the 'Wilson Tariff Act'.''
Cross
References.
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Combinations in restraint of trade or commerce, see
section 1 of this title.
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Immunity of witnesses, see section 6001 of Title
18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
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Monopolies in restraint of trade or commerce, see
section 2 of this title.
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Panama Canal closed to violators of antitrust laws,
see section 31 of this title.
Wilson
Tariff Act Referred to in Other Sections. The
Wilson Tariff Act (15 U.S.C. 8 to 11) is referred to in sections 12, 31,
44 of this title; title 7 section 225; title 16 section 2602, title 30
section 1413; title 42 section 2135; title 43 section 1331; title 49
section 10706.
Section
Referred to in Other Sections. This
section is referred to in sections 9, 11, 3301 of this title; title 10
section 7430; title 16 section 2602; title 30 section 184; title 40
section 488; title 42 sections 2297b-11, 5417, 5909, 6202, 8235f, 9102;
title 43 section 1770; title 45 section 791; title 46 App. section 1702;
title 49 section 10706; title 50 App. sections 1941a, 2158.
