Commodities Lawyer

The commodities lawyer represents domestic and international commodity merchants in disputes and litigation involving the physicals markets and spot markets. Commodity fraud attorneys also provide effective litigation and arbitration services to domestic and international commodity merchants in disputes over quality, quantity or price.

Commodity Law - Guide to Commodities Law

Commodities are defined as any good or service produced by human labor and offered as a product for general sale on the market. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has the mandate to regulate this sector of financial activity.

Commodities Law - United States

ABA - Enforcement Trends in Securities and Commodities Actions 2010
Senior representatives from the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and the business community will discuss enforcement priorities for the coming year in securities and commodities investigations and enforcement actions.

CFTC Division of Enforcement - Commodity Exchange Act
The CFTC's Division of Enforcement investigates and prosecutes alleged violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission regulations. The Commission relies on the public as an important source of information in carrying out its regulatory and enforcement responsibilities. You may contact us to report suspicious activities or transactions which may involve the trading of commodity futures contracts or commodity options.

Commodity Exchange Act (CEA)
An act passed in 1936 by the U.S. Government that provides federal regulation of all futures trading activities. This act replaced the Grain Futures Act of 1922.

Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000
Federal legislation enacted in 2000 that overhauled certain regulatory schemes and expelled the Shad-Johnson jurisdictional accord, which prevented single-stock futures in 1982. Another major part of the act was that it prevented the new financial products called swaps from being regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Congress created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in 1974 as an independent agency with the mandate to regulate commodity futures and option markets in the United States. The agency's mandate has been renewed and expanded several times since then, most recently by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.