[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 42 (Monday, March 4, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7369-7370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-03395]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for Section 7a of the Clayton
Act
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Trade Commission announces the revised thresholds
for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 required
by the 2000 amendment of Section 7A of the Clayton Act.
DATES: April 3, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nora Whitehead (202-326-3100), Federal
Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition, Premerger Notification Office,
400 7th Street SW, Room 5301, Washington, DC 20024.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.
18a, as added by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of
1976, Public Law 94-435, 90 Stat. 1390 (``the Act''), requires all
persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions, which meet or
exceed the jurisdictional thresholds in the Act, to file notification
with the Commission and the Assistant Attorney General and to wait a
designated period of time before consummating such transactions.
Section 7A(a)(2) requires the Federal Trade Commission to revise those
thresholds annually, based on the change in gross national product, in
accordance with Section 8(a)(5). Note that while the filing fee
thresholds are revised annually, the actual filing fees are not
similarly indexed and, as a result, have not been adjusted for
inflation in over a decade. The new thresholds, which take effect 30
days after publication in the Federal Register, are as follows:
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Original Adjusted
Subsection of 7A threshold threshold
(million) (million
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7A(a)(2)(A)............................. $200 $359.9
7A(a)(2)(B)(i).......................... 50 90
7A(a)(2)(B)(i).......................... 200 359.9
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(i)...................... 10 18
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(i)...................... 100 180
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(II)..................... 10 18
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(II)..................... 100 180
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(III).................... 100 180
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(III).................... 10 18
Section 7A note: Assessment and 100 180
Collection of Filing Fees \1\ (3)(b)(1)
Section 7A note: Assessment and 100 180
Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(2)....
Section 7A note: Assessment and 500 899.8
Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(2)....
Section 7A note: Assessment and 500 899.8
Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(3)....
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\1\ Public Law 106-553, Sec. 630(b) amended Sec. 18a note.
Any reference to these thresholds and related thresholds and
limitation values in the HSR rules (16 CFR parts 801-803) and the
Antitrust Improvements Act Notification and Report Form (``the HSR
Form'') and its Instructions will also be adjusted, where indicated by
the term ``(as adjusted)'', as follows:
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Adjusted
Original threshold threshold
(million)
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$10 million............................................. $18
$50 million............................................. 90
$100 million............................................ 180
$110 million............................................ 198
$200 million............................................ 359.9
$500 million............................................ 899.8
$1 billion.............................................. 1,799.5
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By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-03395 Filed 3-1-19; 8:45 am]
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