Fair-trade laws

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Fair-trade laws were designed to prevent large retail stores from selling certain merchandise at extremely low prices in attempts to drive their smaller competitors out of business. Such laws are also called resale price maintenance laws. Many U.S. states once had such laws. However, fair-trade laws have been illegal in the United States since 1975.

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