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[CITE: 15USC6204]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
       CHAPTER 88--INTERNATIONAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE
 
Sec. 6204. Limitations on authority

    Sections 6201, 6202, and 6203 of this title shall not apply with 
respect to the following antitrust evidence:
        (1) Antitrust evidence that is received by the Attorney General 
    or the Commission under section 18a of this title. Nothing in this 
    paragraph shall affect the ability of the Attorney General or the 
    Commission to disclose to a foreign antitrust authority antitrust 
    evidence that is obtained otherwise than under section 18a of this 
    title.
        (2) Antitrust evidence that is matter occurring before a grand 
    jury and with respect to which disclosure is prevented by Federal 
    law, except that for the purpose of applying Rule 6(e)(3)(C)(iv) of 
    the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure with respect to this 
    section--
            (A) a foreign antitrust authority with respect to which a 
        particularized need for such antitrust evidence is shown shall 
        be considered to be an appropriate official of any of the 
        several States, and
            (B) a foreign antitrust law administered or enforced by the 
        foreign antitrust authority shall be considered to be a State 
        criminal law.

        (3) Antitrust evidence that is specifically authorized under 
    criteria established by Executive Order 12356, or any successor to 
    such order, to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or 
    foreign policy, and--
            (A) that is classified pursuant to such order or such 
        successor, or
            (B) with respect to which a determination of classification 
        is pending under such order or such successor.

        (4) Antitrust evidence that is classified under section 2162 of 
    title 42.

(Pub. L. 103-438, Sec. 5, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4599.)

                       References in Text

    Rule 6(e)(3)(C)(iv) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 
referred to in par. (2), is set out in the Appendix to Title 18, Crimes 
and Criminal Procedure.
    Executive Order 12356, referred to in par. (3), is Ex. Ord. No. 
12356, Apr. 2, 1982, 47 F.R. 14874, 15557, which was set out as a note 
under section 435 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to 
revocation by Ex. Ord. No. 12958, Sec. 6.1(d), Apr. 17, 1995, 60 F.R. 
19843, set out as a note under section 435 of Title 50.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 6201, 6202, 6207, 6208 of 
this title.
