7 USC § 852 - Marketing agreements with handlers; exemption from antitrust laws

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identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s852"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "7 USC § 852 - Marketing agreements with handlers; exemption from antitrust laws"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "852"
section_name: "Marketing agreements with handlers; exemption from antitrust laws"
chapter_number: 30
chapter_name: "ANTI-HOG-CHOLERA SERUM AND HOG-CHOLERA VIRUS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 24, 1935, ch. 641, § 57, 49 Stat. 781.)"
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# § 852. Marketing agreements with handlers; exemption from antitrust laws

section 851 of this titlesection 854 of this title

In order to effectuate the policy declared in  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  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.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 24, 1935, ch. 641, § 57, 49 Stat. 781.)