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.
La Conner is a town in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The population was 761 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. In April, it hosts the majority of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival events. The center of town—roughly bounded by 2nd, Morris and Commercial Sts. , and Swinomish Channel—is a historic district, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.