Files
republic-os/legal/us/code/title-15/chapter-1/section-8.md
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

2.9 KiB
Raw Permalink Blame History

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction corpus kind title_number title_name chapter_number chapter_name section citation status release_point release_date source source_url source_identifier source_file source_hash raw_snapshot_hash text_hash retrieved_at confidence tags
LegalText 15 U.S.C. § 8 Trusts in restraint of import trade illegal; penalty us united_states_code code_section 15 COMMERCE AND TRADE 1 MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE 8 15 U.S.C. § 8 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc15@119-100.zip /us/usc/t15/s8 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-15/usc15.xml 4c9c5cf84ac2877fe3fc4bf4457045d55035ba65708e673f98324f7b1fd49567 6982338d990ef19d6b52bff6825089bdd6d0ee1233d9382673faf533decd5059 d46b70a8001c196916baee1c34f03edeedb12b3f751268233a1ab08e95d3fcf1 2026-07-04 official
legal
us-code

15 U.S.C. § 8 - Trusts in restraint of import trade illegal; penalty

Text

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.

(Aug. 27, 1894, ch. 349, § 73, 28 Stat. 570; Feb. 12, 1913, ch. 40, 37 Stat. 667.)

Notes

Editorial Notes

Amendments1913—Act Feb. 12, 1913, inserted “as agent or principal”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Short TitleSection 77, formerly § 78, of act Aug. 27, 1894, as added by Pub. L. 94435, title III, § 305(d), Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1397; renumbered § 77 and amended Pub. L. 107273, div. C, title IV, § 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.”