A trade association may help establish industry standards that protect the public or allow components from different manufacturers to operate together.

Trade associations are subject to strict scrutiny under the many federal and state antitrust laws. One of the most powerful of these is the Sherman Act.

Like a joint venture, a trade association can serve procompetitive ends even though it involves collective action by horizontal competitors. At the same time, ...

The Association is engaged in the following activities: creating efficient practices in the application of antitrust laws and participating in lawmaking ...

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There are four main areas of antitrust concern for professional associations: price fixing, membership, standardization and certification, and industry self- ...

Moreover, a trade association is often the entity that government enforcers look to first in seeking information about possible anticompetitive conduct in a ...