Antitrust and Trade Regulation laws aim to promote free competition in the marketplace. Agreements or cooperative efforts by two or more entities that affects or restrains competitors is illegal under these laws. The Sherman Act makes illegal any contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce and makes monopolies and attempts, combinations, or conspiracies to monopolize illegal. The Clayton Act regulate price discrimination, tying and exclusive dealing contracts, stock acquisition and interlocking directorates.
Neelyville is a town in Butler County in Southeast Missouri in the United States. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the town's population was 487; a 2008 estimate, however, showed the population to be 500, an increase of 2.70%. Neelyville is included within the Poplar Bluff Micropolitan Statistical Area.