Antitrust Laws

Competition law, known in the United States as antitrust law, has three main elements:It may prohibit agreements or practices that restrict free trading and competition between business entities. This includes in particular the repression of cartels.It may ban abusive behaviour by a firm dominating a market, or anti-competitive practices that tend to lead to such a dominant position. Practices controlled in this way may include predatory pricing, tying, price gouging, refusal to deal and many others.It may supervise the mergers and acquisitions of large corporations, including some joint ventures. Transactions that are considered to threaten the competitive process can be prohibited altogether, or approved subject to "remedies" such as an obligation to divest part of the merged business or to offer licences or access to facilities to enable other businesses to continue competing.
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Legislation established by the federal government to prevent the formation of monopolies  and to regulate trade.

LEGGI ANTIMONOPOLISTICHE. LEGGI ANTITRUST