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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

REVISED JURISDICTIONAL THRESHOLDS FOR
SECTION 8 OF THE CLAYTON ACT

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission

ACTION: Notice

SUMMARY: The Federal Trade Commission announces the revised thresholds for interlocking directorates required by the 1990 amendment of Section 8 of the Clayton Act. Section 8 prohibits, with certain exceptions, one person from serving as a director or officer of two competing corporations if two thresholds are met. Competitor corporations are covered by Section 8 if each one has capital, surplus, and undivided profits aggregating more than $10,000,000, with the exception that no corporation is covered if the competitive sales of either corporation are less than $1,000,000. Section 8(a)(5) requires the Federal Trade Commission to revise those thresholds annually, based on the change in gross national product. The new thresholds, which take effect immediately, are $18,142,000 for Section 8(a)(1), and $1,814,200 for Section 8(a)(2)(A).

EFFECTIVE DATE: [Insert date of publication in Federal Register]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: H. Gabriel Dagen, Bureau of Competition, Office of Accounting and Financial Analysis, (202) 326-2573.

(Authority: 15 U.S.C. ยง 19(a)(5)).

By direction of the Commission.

Donald S. Clark
Secretary