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.
Vandalia is a small, unincorporated village in Valley County, Montana, USA. The town was established in 1904 with a post office and a store along the Hi-Line of the Great Northern Railway. The town's chief industry was the manufacture of bricks that were used in public buildings across Montana.