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Federal Trade Commission Act (U.S. Law)

Passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914, this Act established the Federal Trade Commission as an independent regulatory agency of the federal government empowered to enforce the Clayton Antitrust Act and the Robinson- Patman Act.

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