23-1033A. Prohibition of certain trade practices between brewers or dealers and wholesalers.
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(1)It shall be unlawful for any brewer or dealer, directly or indirectly, or through an affiliate, subsidiary, officer, director, agent or employee:
(a)To require that any wholesaler purchase any such beer or other distributed products from such person to the exclusion in whole or in part of beer or other products made or imported by other dealers or brewers;
(b)To discriminate in price, allowance, rebate, refund, commission, discount, or service between the wholesalers purchasing beer or other products from such brewer or dealer;
(c)To threaten any wholesaler with any discrimination prohibited under subsection (1)(b) of this section, with the purpose or effect of changing or maintaining resale prices of the wholesaler;
(d)To impose conditions or restrictions on a wholesaler not generally imposed on other wholesalers of such brewer.
(2)Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit brewers or dealers from selecting their own customers in bona fide transactions not in restraint of trade, nor to prohibit a brewer, or any affiliate or subsidiary of such brewer, duly licensed as a wholesaler from selling and distributing beer or other products manufactured by such brewer at wholesale to the exclusion of beer or other products manufactured by any other brewers. The terms "wholesaler" and "wholesalers" as used in this section shall mean a wholesaler or wholesalers licensed and engaged as such in the sale and distribution of beer in the state of Idaho.