Measures to keep the industry afloat in one country look like unfair competition to others.

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In January 2011, a suit was filed against the company for fraud, false advertising, unfair competition and unjust enrichment.

They complain that the undervalued renminbi represents unfair competition, destroying American jobs, and contributing to the United States trade deficit.

Fonzy thinks the law is unfair with deportation being too strict a punishment.

B. Bilateral tripartite agreements on competition law

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Even countries seemingly committed to competitive markets don t like being beaten at their own game, and often trump up charges of unfair competition.

Moreover, the current system of international trade is deeply inequitable it exposes developing countries to unfair competition, and discourages diversification of their economies.

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According to the analysts of the EU competition law rules, showing during the auction overall ranking instead of prices is preferable from competition law prospective.

Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy

Recognizing further the need for effective competition law enforcement,

(d) Relationship between competition law and policy and subsidies.

Thirteenth Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, 2004

Fourteenth Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, 2005

The decision will remain unfair and unpredictable and consequently the rule of law will not prevail.

Competition experts agree that the most severe sanctions available under a competition law should be reserved for cartel operators.

With regard to priorities, he stressed the need for more resources to enforce core competition provisions and for the FTC to limit its activities under the unfair trade practices provisions to conduct that had a significant impact on competition.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has agreed that member States shall implement measures within the Community that prohibit unfair business practices and promote competition, while the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) has adopted more far reaching competition policy provisions.

Chapter II describes experiences in cooperation on competition law and policy.

Closer regulatory cooperation may also help the US and the EU to confront what business leaders view as increasingly unfair competition from China both at home and abroad.

The International Olive Council shall take any measures it considers useful for the suppression of unfair competition at the international level, including such competition by States which are not Parties to this Agreement or by persons who are nationals of such States.

As of 1999, the competition agencies had prosecuted only one cartel case under the country's competition law, which was enacted in 1988.

The maximum fine allowed by the competition law may be too small.

Competition law and policy and its benefits for the alleviation of poverty

Report of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy

The Grey Album becomes an immediate sensation online, and the Beatles' record company sends out countless cease and desist letters for unfair competition and dilution of our valuable property.

According to a December 2007 NBC Wall Street Journal poll, almost 60 of Americans think globalization is bad because it has subjected US firms and workers to unfair competition.

The integration of a social dimension into their national macroeconomic policies had not produced the expected results, precisely because of the restructuring policies and unfair competition occasioned by globalization.

Effective enforcement of competition law can prevent the likely adverse effects by prohibiting such mergers, allowing them with conditions or issuing divest orders, as may be provided by the relevant competition law provisions.

A Regulation on Cooperation of the States in Suppression of Monopolistic Activity and Unfair Competition establishes cooperation mechanisms in crossborder cases, on the basis of the principle of positive comity.

Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Cooperation in the Field of Countering Unfair Competition and Antimonopoly, (1999).

Competition law and policy have also been linked more directly to trade issues.

The competition law may not provide for sufficiently large fines or other sanctions.

If that distribution was unfair, current and future outcomes will be unfair, too.

While enforcement agreements and some multilateral instruments usually deal solely with competition law and policy, other types of agreements deal with cooperation on competition law and policy as one element in a wider agreement.

Unlike in the case of the EU competition provisions, NAFTA members have not committed themselves explicitly to developing any form of supranational competition law.

combine technical and economic regulation in a sector specific regulator and leave competition law enforcement entirely in the hands of the competition agency organize technical regulation as a stand alone function and include economic regulation within the competition agency combine technical and economic regulation in a sector specific regulator and give it all or some competition law enforcement functions.

All these regional agreements on competition appear to be modelled on the EU approach, which accommodates the competition policies of member States and under which competition law represents a principal tool of economic integration.

OECD, Competition Law and Policy in Russia, an OECD Peer Review, p. 25 (2004).

Such questions are unfair.

This may seem unfair.

J. Morisset ( Unfair trade?

Substantive issues Unfair hearing