interstate commerce
As defined by federal motor carrier regulations, the term refers
to trade, traffic, or transportation in the United States that is
between a place in a state and a place outside of such state or
is between two places in a state through another state. An interstate
shipment begins when it has started its course to another state
or has been delivered to a carrier for such transportation and ends
when it has reached the ultimate destination originally intended
by the party that controls the movement. All transportation from
beginning to end is transportation in interstate commerce. The details
of the interstate movement of goods (e.g., the number of carriers
involved in the movement, billing arrangements between the carriers,
whether there is actual physical continuity of the movement) are
irrelevant in as far as the determination that the movement is interstate
commerce.
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