---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 57b–5"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "57b–5"
heading: "Agricultural cooperatives"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/57b-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Trade Commission"
---

# §57b–5. Agricultural cooperatives

- (a) The Commission shall not have any authority to conduct any study, investigation, or prosecution of any agricultural cooperative for any conduct which, because of the provisions of sections [291](/usc/7/291.md) and [292](/usc/7/292.md) of title 7, is not a violation of any of the antitrust Acts or this subchapter.
- (b) The Commission shall not have any authority to conduct any study or investigation of any agricultural marketing orders.

## Source credit

(Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, § 24, as added Pub. L. 103–312, § 2, Aug. 26, 1994, 108 Stat. 1691.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 24 of act Sept. 26, 1914, was renumbered section 25 and is classified to section 57c of this title.