15 USC § 64 - Unfair methods of competition in export trade

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title: "15 USC § 64 - Unfair methods of competition in export trade"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "64"
section_name: "Unfair methods of competition in export trade"
chapter_number: 2
chapter_name: "FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE"
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last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Apr. 10, 1918, ch. 50, § 4, 40 Stat. 517.)"
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# § 64. Unfair methods of competition in export trade

15 U.S.C. 41

The prohibition against “unfair methods of competition” and the remedies provided for enforcing said prohibition contained in the Federal Trade Commission Act [ et seq.] shall be construed as extending to unfair methods of competition used in export trade against competitors engaged in export trade, even though the acts constituting such unfair methods are done without the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

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**Source Credit**: (Apr. 10, 1918, ch. 50, § 4, 40 Stat. 517.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Federal Trade Commission Act, referred to in text, is , , which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 41 et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see  and Tables.

### Codification

“Federal Trade Commission Act [ et seq.]” substituted in text for “Act entitled ‘An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes,’ approved September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and fourteen” on authority of section 18 of that Act [].