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.
Channelview is a census-designated place (CDP) in eastern Harris County, Texas, United States. The population was 29,685 at the 2000 census. The Handbook of Texas describes Channelview as "an oil refinery suburb of metropolitan Houston. " Channelview,is located east of the Sam Houston tollway to the San Jacinto River. South of Wallisville Rd. to the Houston Ship Channel, and is ten miles east of Downtown Houston.