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First, it prohibits exclusive dealing contracts, under which a sale is made on the condition that the customer agrees not to purchase from rival suppliers. Second, it prohibits requirements contracts, under which a sale is made on the condition that the customer agrees to take the entire required product from the same source. Exclusive dealing contracts and requirement contracts have the same effect. They bind a customer to a particular supplier. However, such contracts may also allow long – term planning, which reduces the costs of one or both parties. Third, it prohibits tying contracts, under which one good is sold only if the customer agrees to purchase some other good.

Section 7 of the Clayton act, which was subject to important amendment in 1950, has a different target, it aims to prevent anticompetitive mergers:

No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or the part of the stock or other share capital and no corporation subject to the jurisdiction of federal trade commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of another corporation engaged in commerce, where in any line of commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.