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[CITE: 15USC6a]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
      CHAPTER 1--MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE
 
Sec. 6a. Conduct involving trade or commerce with foreign 
        nations
        
    Sections 1 to 7 of this title shall not apply to conduct involving 
trade or commerce (other than import trade or import commerce) with 
foreign nations unless--
        (1) such conduct has a direct, substantial, and reasonably 
    foreseeable effect--
            (A) on trade or commerce which is not trade or commerce with 
        foreign nations, or on import trade or import commerce with 
        foreign nations; or
            (B) on export trade or export commerce with foreign nations, 
        of a person engaged in such trade or commerce in the United 
        States; and

        (2) such effect gives rise to a claim under the provisions of 
    sections 1 to 7 of this title, other than this section.

If sections 1 to 7 of this title apply to such conduct only because of 
the operation of paragraph (1)(B), then sections 1 to 7 of this title 
shall apply to such conduct only for injury to export business in the 
United States.

(July 2, 1890, ch. 647, Sec. 7, as added Pub. L. 97-290, title IV, 
Sec. 402, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1246.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 7 of act July 2, 1890, ch. 647, 26 Stat. 210, 
related to suits by persons injured by acts in violation of sections 1 
to 7 of this title and was classified as a note under section 15 of this 
title, prior to repeal by act July 7, 1955, ch. 283, Sec. 3, 69 Stat. 
283, effective six months after July 7, 1955.