15 USC § 6a - Conduct involving trade or commerce with foreign nations

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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s6a"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "15 USC § 6a - Conduct involving trade or commerce with foreign nations"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "6a"
section_name: "Conduct involving trade or commerce with foreign nations"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 7, as added Pub. L. 97–290, title IV, § 402, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1246.)"
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# § 6a. Conduct involving trade or commerce with foreign nations

Sections 1 to 7 of this title shall not apply to conduct involving trade or commerce (other than import trade or import commerce) with foreign nations unless—

**(1)** such conduct has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect—

**(A)** on trade or commerce which is not trade or commerce with foreign nations, or on import trade or import commerce with foreign nations; or

**(B)** on export trade or export commerce with foreign nations, of a person engaged in such trade or commerce in the United States; and

**(2)** such effect gives rise to a claim under the provisions of sections 1 to 7 of this title, other than this section.

If sections 1 to 7 of this title apply to such conduct only because of the operation of paragraph (1)(B), then sections 1 to 7 of this title shall apply to such conduct only for injury to export business in the United States.

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**Source Credit**: (July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 7, as added Pub. L. 97–290, title IV, § 402, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1246.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 7 of , , related to suits by persons injured by acts in violation of sections 1 to 7 of this title and was classified as a note under , prior to repeal by , , effective six months after .