Section 3 of the Clayton Act applies to:
A) service contracts.
B) true consignments.
C) anticompetitive behavior.
D) formal agreements only.

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The Clayton Act was passed in 1914 to supplement the Sherman Act by attacking specific practices that monopolists had historically followed to gain monopoly power. The Clayton Act was intended to be "preventive" in nature, and in most cases only the probability of a significant anticompetitive effect must be shown to establish a violation. Section 3 of the Clayton Act was basically designed to attack three kinds of anticompetitive behavior: tie-in (or tying) contracts, exclusive dealing contracts, and requirements contracts.

Section 3 of the Clayton Act Applies To