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.
Tyner, also called Center Hill, is an unincorporated community in Chowan County, North Carolina, United States about 20 miles (32 km) away from Elizabeth City and also about 100 miles (160 km) from Virginia Beach, Virginia.