fair-trade law

noun

1. a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.

Example Sentences

In legal battle between fair-trading General Electric Co. and Columbia, S.C. discount house, state supreme court gutted fair-trade law by striking down "non-signer clause," which says that stores must abide by fixed-price agreements even if they do not sign such pacts.

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FAIR-TRADE LAW for whole nation is being pushed again by Congress protectionists, who want to allow manufacturers to set minimum prices.

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It reaffirmed an earlier ruling that a state fair-trade law could be enforced only against those retailers who had signed fair-trade agreements,* thus touched off a wave of defections.

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They refused to sign a fair-trade agreement with Seagram and Calvert distillers, and sold their liquor at cut rates, despite Louisiana's fair-trade law that made such price-cutting illegal.

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Webb filed a countersuit charging that the state's fair-trade law was unconstitutional.

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