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| logo_caption = | seal = US-FederalTradeCommission-Seal.svg | seal_width = 150 px | seal_caption = Official seal | formed = September 26, 1914 | preceding1 = Bureau of Corporations | jurisdiction = Federal government of the United States | headquarters = Washington, D.C. | employees = 920 (2006) | budget = | chief1_name = Deborah Platt Majoras | chief1_position = Chairman | chief2_name = | chief2_position = | child1_agency = | website = www.ftc.gov | footnotes = [1][2] }} is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
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The Federal Trade Commission ( independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its principal mission is the promotion of "consumer protection" and the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be "anticompetitive" business practices. Independent agencies of the United States government are those that exist outside of the departments of the executive branch. ...
Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1814 established the Federal Trade Commission, a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the President of the United States for seven year terms. ...
Consumer protection is a form of government regulation which protects the interests of consumers. ...
The Federal Trade Commission Act was one of President Wilson's major acts against trusts. Trusts and trust-busting were significant political concerns during the Progressive Era. Since its inception, the FTC has enforced the provisions of the Clayton Act, a key antitrust statute, as well as the provisions of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 41 et seq. Over time, the FTC has been delegated the enforcement of additional business regulation statutes and has promulgated a number of regulations (codified in Title 16 of the Code of Federal Regulations). The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1814 established the Federal Trade Commission, a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the President of the United States for seven year terms. ...
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924), was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. ...
A trust or business trust was a form of business entity used in the late 19th century with intent to create a monopoly. ...
Trust-busting refers to government activities designed to break up trusts or monopolies. ...
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In the United States, the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 was enacted to remedy perceived deficiencies in antitrust law created under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. ...
This article is about anti-competitive business behavior. ...
Title 15 of the United States Code outlines the role of the commerce and trade in the United States Code. ...
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules and regulations (sometimes called administrative law) published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government of the United States. ...
Organization of the Federal Trade Commission
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FTC Chairmen and Commissioners Federal Trade Commission is headed by five Commissioners who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Under the FTC Act, no more than three Commissioners may be from the same political party. A Commissioner's term of office is seven years, and the terms are staggered so that in a given year at most one Commissioner's term expires (although in certain years, no Commissioner's term expires, and in years where Commissioners choose to step down, more than one new Commissioner may be named).
Bureau of Consumer Protection The Bureau of Consumer Protection’s mandate is to protect consumers against "unfair" or deceptive acts or practices in commerce. With the written consent of the Commission, Bureau attorneys enforce federal laws related to consumer affairs as well as rules promulgated by the FTC. Its functions include investigations, enforcement actions, and consumer and business education. Areas of principal concern for this bureau are: advertising and marketing, financial products and practices, telemarketing fraud, privacy and identity protection etc. The bureau also is responsible for the United States National Do Not Call Registry. It has been suggested that Do-Not-Call Implementation Act of 2003 be merged into this article or section. ...
Under the FTC Act, the Commission has the authority, in most cases, to bring its actions in federal court through its own attorneys. In some consumer protection matters, the FTC appears with, or supports, the U.S. Department of Justice. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. ...
Bureau of Competition The Bureau of Competition is the division of the FTC charged with elimination and prevention of "anticompetitive" business practices. It accomplishes this through the enforcement of antitrust laws, review of proposed mergers, and investigation into other non-merger business practices that may impair competition. Such non-merger practices include horizontal restraints, involving agreements between direct competitors, and vertical restraints, involving agreements among businesses at different levels in the same industry (such as suppliers and commercial buyers). This article is about anti-competitive business behavior. ...
The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as assets. ...
The FTC shares enforcement of antitrust laws with the Department of Justice. However, while the FTC is responsible for civil enforcement of antitrust laws, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice has the power to bring both civil and criminal action in antitrust matters. The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. “Justice Department†redirects here. ...
The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is responsible for enforcing the antitrust laws of the United States. ...
Activities of the FTC
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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with antitrust. ...
Competition law history refers to attempts by governments to regulate competitive markets for goods and services, leading up to the modern competition or antitrust laws around the world today. ...
The term monopolization refers to an offense under Section 2 of the American Sherman Antitrust Act, passed in 1890. ...
In economics and business ethics, a coercive monopoly is any monopoly maintained by coercion. ...
In economics, the term natural monopoly is used to refer to two different things. ...
In economics and especially in the theory of competition, barriers to entry are obstacles in the path of a firm which wants to enter a given market. ...
In economics, market power is the ability of a firm to alter the market price of a good or service. ...
In competition law, before deciding whether companies have significant market power which would justify government intervention, the test of Small but Significant and Non-transitory Increase in Price is used to define the relevant market in a consistent way. ...
In competition law the Relevant market defines the market in which one or more goods compete. ...
Merger Control refers to the procedure of reviewing mergers and acquisitions under antitrust / competition law. ...
Anti-competitive practices are business or government practices that prevent and/or reduce competition in a market. ...
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A cartel is a group of formally independent producers whose goal is to increase their collective profits by means of price fixing, limiting supply, or other restrictive practices. ...
Product bundling is a marketing strategy that involves offering several products for sale as one combined product. ...
Tying is the practice of making the sale of one good (the tying good) to the de facto or de jure customer conditional on the purchase of a second distinctive good (the tied good). ...
Refusal to deal is one of several anti-competitive practices forbidden in countries which have free market economies. ...
Exclusive dealing refers to when a retailer or wholesaler is ‘tied’ to purchase from a supplier on the understanding that no other distributor will be appointed or receive supplies in a given area. ...
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Conscious parallelism is a term used in antitrust law to describe price-fixing between competitors in an oligopoly that occurs without an actual spoken agreement between the parties. ...
The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ...
Predatory pricing is the practice of a dominant firm selling a product at a loss in order to drive some or all competitors out of the market, or create a barrier to entry into the market for potential new competitors. ...
Patent misuse in the United States, is an affirmative defense used in patent litigation after the defendant has been found infringed a patent. ...
Copyright misuse is an equitable defense against copyright infringement in the United States based on the unreasonable conduct of the copyright owner. ...
Europe The Sherman Antitrust Act, formally known as the Act of July 2, 1890, ch. ...
In the United States, the Clayton Anti-trust Act of 1914 (codified as 15 U.S.C. §§ 12-27) was enacted to remedy deficiencies in antitrust law created under the Sherman Anti-trust Act(1890) that allowed corporations to dissolve labor unions. ...
The Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 (or Anti-Price Discrimination Act, ) is a United States federal law that outlawed anticompetitive practices by producers in which chain stores were allowed to purchase goods at lower prices than other retailers. ...
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1814 established the Federal Trade Commission, a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the President of the United States for seven year terms. ...
The Merger guidelines are a set of internal rules promulgated by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission. ...
The essential facilities doctrine (sometimes also referred to as the essential facility doctrine) is a particular type of claim of monopolization made under competition laws. ...
The Noerr-Pennington doctrine is a doctrine of United States antitrust law set forth by the United States Supreme Court in a pair of cases which suggested that under the First Amendment, it can not be a violation of the federal antitrust laws for competitors to lobby the government to...
The rule of reason is a doctrine developed by the United States Supreme Court in its interpretation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. ...
Australia The European Commission, established following World War 2, was the first Europe wide competition authority European Community competition law is one of the areas of authority of the European Union. ...
The Irish Competition Law is the Irish body of legal rules designed to ensure fairness and freedom in the marketplace. ...
The Competition Act 1998 banned public schools from fee-fixing in the United Kingdom, which they had previously been allowed to do. ...
| | Enforcement authorities and organizations | | | | edit box | The FTC carries out (parties) its mission by investigating issues raised by reports from consumers and businesses, pre-merger notification filings, congressional inquiries, or reports in the media. These issues include, for instance, false advertising and other forms of fraud. FTC investigations may pertain to a single company or an entire industry. If the results of the investigation reveal unlawful conduct, the FTC may seek voluntary compliance by the offending business through a consent order, file an administrative complaint, or initiate federal litigation. Under the FTC Act, the federal courts retain their traditional authority to issue equitable relief, including the appointment of receivers, monitors, the imposition of asset freezes to guard against the spoliation of funds, immediate access to business premises to preserve evidence, and other relief including financial disclosures and expedited discovery. In numerous cases, the FTC employs this authority to combat serious consumer deception or fraud. Additionally, the FTC has rulemaking power to address concerns regarding industry-wide practices. Rules promulgated under this authority are known as Trade Rules. The Trade Practices Act 1974 is an act of the Parliament of Australia. ...
The International Competition Network is an informal, virtual network that seeks to facilitate cooperation between competition law authorities globally. ...
A competition regulator is a government agency, typically a statutory authority, which regulates competition laws, and may sometimes also regulate consumer protection laws. ...
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A consent judgment is a final, binding judgment in a case in which both parties agree, by stipulation, to a particular outcome. ...
In law, equitable remedies are the remedies developed and granted by the old courts of equity, such as the Court of Chancery in England, and still available today in common law jurisdictions. ...
In administrative law, rulemaking refers to the process that executive agencies use to create, or promulgate, regulations. ...
In the mid-1990s, the FTC launched the fraud sweeps concept where the agency and its federal, state, and local partners filed simultaneous legal actions against multiple telemarketing fraud targets. The first sweeps operation was Project Telesweep[1] in July 1995 which cracked down on 100 business opportunity scams.
In 1984,[2] the FTC began to regulate the funeral service industry in order to protect consumers from deceptive practices. The FTC Funeral Rule[3] requires funeral homes to provide all customers (and potential customers) with a General Price List ("GPL"), specifically outlining goods and services in the funeral industry, as defined by the FTC, and a listing of their prices. By law, the GPL must be presented to all individuals that ask, no one is to be denied a written, retainable copy of the GPL. In 1996, the FTC instituted the Funeral Rule Offenders Program (FROP), under which "funeral homes make a voluntary payment to the U.S. Treasury or appropriate state fund for an amount less than what would likely be sought if the Commission authorized filing a lawsuit for civil penalties. In addition, the funeral homes participate in the NFDA compliance program, which includes a review of the price lists, on-site training of the staff, and follow-up testing and certification on compliance with the Funeral Rule."[2]
See also BBB Video Series logo The Better Business Bureau Video Series (BBBVS), founded in 1995, is a consumer advocate company based in the United States devoted to supplying consumer information on the most inquired topics the Better Business Bureau receives every year. ...
The Brandeis Award recognizes those have done exemplary work to protect and champion privacy. ...
A business opportunity , or biz-opp , involves the sale or lease of any product, service, equipment, etc. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with antitrust. ...
A competition regulator is a government agency, typically a statutory authority, which regulates competition laws, and may sometimes also regulate consumer protection laws. ...
Which?, until September 2004 known also as the Consumers Association, is a consumer rights organisation in the UK, founded in 1957 by Michael Young. ...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government created in 1972 through the Consumer Safety Act to protect “against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer productsâ€. As of 2006 its acting chairman is Nancy Nord, a Republican. ...
Consumer protection is a form of government regulation which protects the interests of consumers. ...
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (or FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq. ...
In the United States sweepstakes or simply sweeps (single and plural) have become associated with marketing promotions targeted toward enticing consumers to submit a free entry into a drawing tied to product or service awareness wherein often prizes are given away by sponsoring companies. ...
References - G. Cullom Davis. "The Transformation of the Federal Trade Commission, 1914–1929," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 49, No. 3. (Dec., 1962), pp. 437–455 (archived in JSTOR)
JSTOR®, begun in 1995, is an online system for archiving academic journals. ...
External links - FTC Home Page
- Consumer Complaint Form, Federal Trade Commission
- Federal Trade Commission Decisions (January 1969–December 2005) This is a compendium of agency decisions in administrative cases brought under 16 C.F.R. parts II and III. Federal court decisions may be found elsewhere, in published federal case reports. The site's search engine can limit its results from the archive.
- Federal Trade Commission Meeting Notices and Rule Changes from The Federal Register RSS Feed
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