Recent Proposals to Amend the Robinson-Patman Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Consumers, and Employment of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C., September 7 and 8, 1977, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 307 pages |
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actual savings ADERS Advisory Opinion Antitrust Associated Wholesale Grocers Association backhaul allowances basis BEDELL bill Board of Directors BRECKINRIDGE buyer Chairman Commission's Committee common carrier competition consumer Corporation cost-justified backhaul deadheading delivered price system delivery costs Diesel Fuel discount distribution centers distributors economic efficient empty truck energy savings f.o.b. price Federal Energy Administration Federal Trade Commission food industry Food Marketing Institute for-hire freight gallons Gasoline Conservation Act haul ICHORD large chain load manufacturer MCMORRIS MCNICHOLAS meeting merchandise MEZINES MILES PRIVATE TRUCK million MOTOR CARRIER NARGUS National non-discriminatory operate option Patman Act PECK percent pick President price discrimination proposal purchasers question RAIL M.C.
P.T. RAILROADS Robinson-Patman Act ROTHWELL savings in delivery Section 2(a seller seller's customers small business small wholesalers statement subcommittee suppliers testimony transportation uniform delivered price uniform zone delivered warehouse zone delivered pricing zone price
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Page 208 - That it shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, either directly or indirectly, to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality...
Page 222 - Commission necessarily to flow from the use of a delivered pricing system, for in such a case the freight factor included within the price is not the actual freight to any given point, but an average of the freight costs for all customers within the zone wherein the delivered price is quoted, or, at least, a figure determined by some formula apart from actual costs. If one customer is then given a "back-haul...
Page 255 - The purpose of this proposed legislation is to restore, so far as possible, equality of opportunity in business by strengthening antitrust laws and by protecting trade and commerce against unfair trade practices and unlawful price discrimination...
Page 72 - Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent differentials which make only due allowance for differences in the cost of manufacture, sale, or delivery resulting from the differing methods or quantities in which such commodities are to such purchasers sold or delivered...
Page 161 - ... the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation...
Page 104 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise...
Page 179 - The manufacturer in question presently sells its products on a delivered price basis with bracket pricing and does not permit customers to pick up products at warehouses or plants. Customers with trucks returning empty to their warehouses along routes near...
Page 258 - This proviso is of great importance, for while it leaves trade and industry free from any restriction or impediment to the adoption and use of more economic processes of manufacture, methods of sale, and modes of delivery, wheresoever they may be employed in streams of production or distribution; it also limits the use of quantity price differentials to the sphere of actual cost differences. Otherwise, such differentials would become instruments of favor and privilege...
Page 75 - ... no legal difference whether the manufacturer computes its factory price and adds to it an amount equal to the average freight costs for delivering to all customers, as is done in the usual uniform delivered pricing system, or whether it accomplishes the same result by deducting an amount from the factory price which would have the effect of leaving each buyer paying an amount roughly equal to the same freight factor. In either event, it would seem that the manufacturer would have made freight...
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