Commerce and Trade - 15 USC Section 8

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Sec. 8. Trusts in restraint of import trade illegal; penalty

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.

AMENDMENTS
1913 - Act Feb. 12, 1913, inserted "as agent or principal".
SHORT TITLE
Section 77, formerly Sec. 78, of act Aug. 27, 1894, as added by
Pub. L. 94-435, title III, Sec. 305(d), Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat.
1397; renumbered Sec. 77 and amended Pub. L. 107-273, div. C, title
IV, Sec. 14102(c)(1)(B), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1921, provided
that: "Sections 73, 74, 75, and 76 of this Act [enacting sections 8
to 11 of this title] may be cited as the 'Wilson Tariff Act'."

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