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{{Short description|United States federal law}}
{{Infobox U.S. legislation
| shorttitle        = Futures Trading Act
| othershorttitles  = Futures Trading Act of 1921
| longtitle         = An Act taxing contracts for the sale of grain for future delivery, and options for such contracts, and providing for the regulation of boards of trade, and for other purposes.
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| nickname          = 
| enacted by        = 67th
| effective date    = August 24, 1921
| public law url    = 
| cite public law   = {{USPL|67|66}}
| cite statutes at large = {{USStat|42|187}}
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| title amended   = [[Title 7 of the United States Code|7 U.S.C.: Agriculture]]
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| sections amended = {{Usc-title-chap|7|1}} § 1
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| introducedin    = House
| introducedbill  = {{USbill|67|H.R.|5676}}
| introducedby    = [[Jasper N. Tincher]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]]-[[Kansas|KS]])
| introduceddate  = May 3, 1921
| committees      = [[United States House Committee on Agriculture|House Agriculture Committee]]
| passedbody1     = House
| passeddate1     = May 13, 1921
| passedvote1     = [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/67-1/h19 269-69]
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| conferencedate  = August 23, 1921
| passedbody3     = House
| passeddate3     = August 23, 1921
| passedvote3     = [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/67-1/h99 341-9]
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| passedbody4     = Senate 
| passeddate4     = August 23, 1921
| passedvote4     = passed
| signedpresident = [[Warren G. Harding]]
| signeddate      = August 24, 1921
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| SCOTUS cases    = {{unbulleted list|[[Hill v. Wallace|Hill v. Wallace, 259 U.S. 44 (1922)]]|Trusler v. Crooks, 269 U.S. 475 (1926)}}
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The '''Future Trading Act of 1921''' ({{USPL|67|66}}, {{USStat|42|187}}) was a United States  [[Act of Congress]], approved on August 24, 1921, by the [[67th United States Congress]] intended to institute regulation of grain [[futures contract]]s and, particularly, the [[Exchange (organized market)|exchanges]] on which they were traded.  It was the second federal statute that attempted to regulate futures contracts after the short lived [[Anti-Gold Futures Act of 1864]]. 

The act imposed a tax of 20 cents a [[bushel]] on all contracts for the sale of grain for future delivery other than those on exchanges regulated by the [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]] that met standards set out in the statute.  Twenty cents a bushel was considered a large sum by the standards of the day.

The Act was held to be unconstitutional by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in ''[[Hill v. Wallace]]'' on May 15, 1922.  About four years later, on January 11, 1926, the Court announced a related decision in ''[[Trusler v. Crooks]]''.

The [[Grain Futures Act]] of 1922 was ruled constitutional in [[Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Olsen]]. 

==External links==
* {{OCLC search link|10050546}}

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[[Category:Futures markets]]
[[Category:United States federal commodity and futures legislation]]
[[Category:1921 in American law]]