[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 26, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4299-4300]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-01451]
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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: Effective Date: February 25, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Jones, Federal Trade
Commission, Bureau of Competition, Premerger Notification Office, 400
7th Street SW., Room #5301, Washington, DC 20024, Phone (202) 326-3100.
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, Pub. L. 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)............................. 200 312.6
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7A(a)(2)(B)(i).......................... 50 78.2
7A(a)(2)(B)(i).......................... 200 312.6
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(i)...................... 10 15.6
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(i)...................... 100 156.3
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(II)..................... 10 15.6
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(II)..................... 100 156.3
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(III).................... 100 156.3
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(III).................... 10 15.6
Section 7A note: Assessment and 100 156.3
Collection of Filing Fee\s\\1\
(3)(b)(1)..............................
Section 7A note: Assessment and 100 156.3
Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(2)....
Section 7A note: Assessment and 500 781.5
Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(2)....
Section 7A note: Assessment and 500 781.5
Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(3)....
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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 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............................................. 15.6
$50 million............................................. 78.2
$100 million............................................ 156.3
$110 million............................................ 171.9
$200 million............................................ 312.6
$500 million............................................ 781.5
$1 billion.............................................. 1,563.0
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By direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-01451 Filed 1-25-16; 8:45 am]
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