{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-trading-interests-us-antitrust-measures-order-1983/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/900",
  "legislation_title": "The Protection of Trading Interests (US Antitrust Measures) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-trading-interests-us-antitrust-measures-order-1983",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PROTECTION OF TRADING INTERESTS\nMade 23rd June 1983\nLaid before Parliament 24th June 1983\nComing into Operation 27th June 1983\nWhereas it appears to the Secretary of State that the measures to which this Order relates have been taken by or under the law of the United States of America (“the United States”) for regulating or controlling international trade and that those measures, in so far as they apply to things done or to be done outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States by persons carrying on business in the United Kingdom, are damaging or threaten to damage the trading interests of the United Kingdom:\nNow therefore the Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under section 1(1) of the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 (“the 1980 Act”) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/900/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:00:54.954184+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}