Antitrust or Competition laws legislate against trade practices which undermine competitiveness or are considered to be unfair.

Most anti-trust activity can be classified in the following areas:

• Bid rigging
• Monopolization and oligopolization
• Price fixing
• Proprietary lock-in.
• Tying

Alabama became the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law on February 23, 1883.

See also

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Robinson-Patman Act
• Microsoft antitrust case

External link

• http://www.wa.gov/ago/trust .