Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-102
§4306 Application of Section 4303 Protections to Production of Products, Processes, and Services
Title 15 › CHAPTER 69 — COOPERATIVE RESEARCH › § 4306
Summary
Special protections for joint ventures that make a product, process, or service do not apply unless two things are true. First, the main production facilities must be in the United States or its territories. Second, every person who controls any partner in the venture, including the partner itself, must be either a U.S. person or a foreign person from a country whose laws give U.S. people the same antitrust treatment as that country’s own people for joining production joint ventures.
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Title 15, §4306
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Notwithstanding section 4303 and 4305 of this title, the protections of section 4303 of this title shall not apply with respect to a joint venture’s production of a product, process, or service, as referred to in section 4301(a)(6)(D) of this title, unless—
(1)the principal facilities for such production are located in the United States or its territories, and
(2)each person who controls any party to such venture (including such party itself) is a United States person, or a foreign person from a country whose law accords antitrust treatment no less favorable to United States persons than to such country’s domestic persons with respect to participation in joint ventures for production.
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15 U.S.C. § 4306
Title 15, Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102