---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 6a"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "6a"
heading: "Conduct involving trade or commerce with foreign nations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/6a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade"
---

# §6a. Conduct involving trade or commerce with foreign nations


Sections [1](/usc/15/1.md) to [7](/usc/15/7.md) of this title shall not apply to conduct involving trade or commerce (other than import trade or import commerce) with foreign nations unless—

- (1) such conduct has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect—
  - (A) on trade or commerce which is not trade or commerce with foreign nations, or on import trade or import commerce with foreign nations; or
  - (B) on export trade or export commerce with foreign nations, of a [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) engaged in such trade or commerce in the United States; and
- (2) such effect gives rise to a claim under the provisions of sections [1](/usc/15/1.md) to [7](/usc/15/7.md) of this title, other than this section.

If sections [1](/usc/15/1.md) to [7](/usc/15/7.md) of this title apply to such conduct only because of the operation of [paragraph (1)(B)](#1-B), then sections [1](/usc/15/1.md) to [7](/usc/15/7.md) of this title shall apply to such conduct only for injury to export business in the United States.


## Source credit

(July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 7, as added Pub. L. 97–290, title IV, § 402, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1246.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 7 of act July 2, 1890, ch. 647, 26 Stat. 210, related to suits by persons injured by acts in violation of sections 1 to 7 of this title and was classified as a note under section 15 of this title, prior to repeal by act July 7, 1955, ch. 283, § 3, 69 Stat. 283, effective six months after July 7, 1955.