Effective February 14, 2007, the well-known $50 million HSR reporting threshold will undergo its annual adjustment for inflation, rising to $59.8 million for 2007. At the same time, all of the notification and exemption dollar thresholds in the HSR statute, regulations and reporting instructions that are subject to annual adjustments[1] will be raised by the same adjustment. The effective HSR dollar thresholds for 2007 are as follows:
| Original Threshold | Adjusted Threshold |
| $10 million | $12.0 million |
| $50 million | $59.8 million |
| $100 million | $119.6 million |
| $110 million | $131.5 million |
| $200 million | $239.2 million |
| $500 million | $597.9 million |
| $1 billion | $1.1958 billion |
The dollar thresholds for Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which governs interlocking directorates, have also undergone an annual adjustment for inflation. Effective January 22, 2007, the threshold for Section 8(a)(1) became $24,001,000 and the threshold for Section 8(a)(2)(A) became $2,400,100.
For the FTC press release regarding this change, with links to the related Federal Register announcement, please click here.
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[1] The annual inflationary adjustments to the reporting thresholds were required by the 2000 amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, 15 U.S.C. ยง18a, as amended.