§ 8. — Trusts in restraint of import trade illegal; penalty.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC8]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 1--MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE
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.
(Aug. 27, 1894, ch. 349, Sec. 73, 28 Stat. 570; Feb. 12, 1913, ch. 40,
37 Stat. 667.)
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'.''
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 559; title 42 sections 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.
