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.
Clover is a town in York County, South Carolina, United States located in the greater Charlotte metropolitan area. The population of the town was 4,916 within the town limits, based on 2008 estimates. Clover is twinned with the Northern Irish town of Larne, located on the East Coast of County Antrim.