interstate commerce
Business across states
Interstate commerce is business activity that crosses state lines—the buying, selling, or transporting of goods and services between states.
The term carries special legal weight in the United States, where the Constitution grants Congress power to regulate it.
This "commerce clause" has been interpreted broadly to cover nearly any economic activity with effects beyond a single state: The federal minimum wage applies because the company engages in interstate commerce.
- Federal Trade CommissionAgency overseeing marketplace fairness
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- truckHeavy freight vehicle
- long haulProlonged difficult undertaking
- truck stopRoadside facility for haulers
federal law · goods · federalism · border · Department of Transportation · trade · buying and selling · free trade · highway · toll road · big rig · Industrial Revolution · Ports · cargo · Manufacturing · supply chain · delivery · freight
interstate commercelocal commerce
Nearby economic exchange
local trade · neighborhood business · international commerce · foreign commerce · global trade
interstate commerceneighborhood business
subsistence economy · cottage industry · barter economy · autarky · self-sufficiency