---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 C.F.R. § 240.15"
title: "16"
number: "240.15"
heading: "Cost justification."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/16/240.15"
---

# §240.15. Cost justification.


It is no defense to a charge of unlawful discrimination in the payment of an allowance or the furnishing of a service for a seller to show that such payment or service could be justified through savings in the cost of manufacture, sale or delivery.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 5, 6, 38 Stat. 719, as amended, 721; 15 U.S.C. 45, 46; 49 Stat. 1526; 15 U.S.C. 13, as amended.

### Source

Source: 79 FR 58252, Sept. 29, 2014, unless otherwise noted.