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Miller-Tydings Act of 1937  

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  • The Miller-Tydings Act of 1937 exempted retail price maintenance agreements (fair trade provisions) in interstate commerce from federal antitrust laws. Under fair trade laws, manufacturers created resale price contracts with distributors that required their retailers within a given state to sell “fair-traded” products at the same price. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Miller-Tydings Act of 1937]

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