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.
Ivanhoe is an unincorporated community in southern Wythe County, Virginia, United States, just north of the Carroll County border. New River Trail State Park runs through Ivanhoe. This town composed in a rural atmosphere in which many of its residents do not even own cell phones.