Section 3
SEC. 3. Every combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement, or contract is hereby declared to be contrary to public policy, illegal, and void when the same is made by or between two or more persons either of whom, as agent or principal, is engaged in importing any article from any foreign country into the Philippine Islands, and when such combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement, or contract is' intended to operate in restraint of lawful trade, or free competition in lawful trade or commerce, or to increase the market price in any part of the Philippine Islands of any article or articles imported or intended to be imported into the Philippine Islands, or of any manufacture into which such imported article enters or is intended to enter. Every person who is or shall hereafter be engaged in the importation of goods or any commodity from any foreign country in violation of this section of this Act, or who shall combine or conspire with another to violate the same, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand pesos, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.