7 U.S.C. § 852 : US Code - Section 852: Marketing agreements with handlers; exemption from antitrust laws

Search 7 U.S.C. § 852 : US Code - Section 852: Marketing agreements with handlers; exemption from antitrust laws

In order to effectuate the policy declared in section 851 of this
title the Secretary of Agriculture shall have the power, after due
notice and opportunity for hearing, to enter into marketing
agreements with manufacturers and others engaged in the handling of
anti-hog-cholera serum and hog-cholera virus only with respect to
such handling as is in the current of interstate or foreign
commerce or which directly burdens, obstructs, or affects
interstate or foreign commerce in such serum and virus. Such
persons are in section 854 of this title referred to as "handlers."
The making of any such agreement shall not be held to be in
violation of any of the antitrust laws of the United States, and
any such agreement shall be deemed to be lawful.