Federal trade commission act 1914 antitrust acts
After more than a decade of government inactivity, the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice have proven in recent years that businesses contemplating mergers and acquisitions need to consider vertical as well as horizontal antitrust risks of proposed transactions. Clayton Act, and the creation of the Federal Trade Commission, it might seem that antitrust enforcement was about to step into high gear. Instead the antitrust system entered a period of relative repose. From 1915 until the mid-1930s, the courts relied heavily on reasonableness tests to evaluate business conduct and often Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA), federal legislation that was adopted in the United States in 1914 to create the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and to give the U.S. government a full complement of legal tools to use against anticompetitive, unfair, and deceptive practices in the marketplace.