15 U.S.C. § 1536
Section 1536 · Prohibition against fraudulent use of Made in America labels
This is the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case National Wildlife Federation v. National Marine Fisheries Service (2007)
Most recently applied in 623 F. Supp. 2d 910 - Smith v. Encore Credit Corp. (December 2008)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
If it has been finally determined by a court or a Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a “Made in America” inscription, or an inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States, that person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract from the Department of Commerce, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures in subpart 9.4 of chapter 1 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.