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.
Wallace is a town in Duplin and Pender counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 3,344 at the 2000 census. The Pender County portion of Wallace is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area.