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.
Lowell is a village in Washington County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River. The population was 628 at the 2000 census. Lowell is the third-oldest settlement in the Northwest Territory, after Marietta, Ohio and Belpre, Ohio.