The Robinson-Patman Act of 1936

The Robinson-Patman Act of 1936

A) made conspiracy in the restraint of trade illegal.
B) made price discrimination, exclusive dealing, tying contracts, and the acquisition of competing companies' stock illegal when they "substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly."
C) declared "unfair methods of competition in commerce" illegal.
D) attempted to decrease the failure rate of small businesses by protecting them from the competition of large and growing chain stores.
E) banned anticompetitive mergers that occurred as a result of one company acquiring the physical assets of another company.