
Sean Heather is Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs.
Sean Heather is Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs.
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Antitrust empowers the market and consumers to set price.
Unlocking Antitrust: When do low prices become predatory?
https://www.uschamber.com/article/unlocking-antitrust-when-do-low-prices-become-predatory
Antitrust is not concerned with size, it is only concerned with how dominance is obtained and maintained in the market.
Unlocking Antitrust: Antitrust Is Not a Weight Loss Program
https://www.uschamber.com/article/unlocking-antitrust-antitrust-not-weight-loss-program
Antitrust already has a way of looking at tying and monopoly leveraging claims.
Unlocking Antitrust: Tying & Monopoly Leveraging
https://www.uschamber.com/article/unlocking-antitrust-tying-monopoly-leveraging
Legislators and economists are actively debating the government’s role in reviewing mergers. Here is what you need to know.
The Dirty Little Secret About Litigated Mergers
https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/the-dirty-little-secret-about-litigated-mergers
Antitrust is not about competitors, its about consumers.
Part 3 examines abuse of superior bargaining power.
Unlocking Antitrust: Antitrust Places Little Obligation to Help Competitors (Part 3)
https://www.uschamber.com/article/unlocking-antitrust-antitrust-places-little-obligation-help-competitors-part-3
Antitrust is not about competitors, its about consumers.
Part 2 examines product design and self-preferencing.
Unlocking Antitrust: Antitrust Places Little Obligation to Help Competitors (Part 2)
https://www.uschamber.com/article/unlocking-antitrust-antitrust-places-little-obligation-help-competitors-part-2
Antitrust is not about competitors, its about consumers.
Part 1 is an examination of refusal to deal and essential facility claims.
Unlocking Antitrust: Antitrust Places Little Obligation to Help Competitors (Part 1)
https://www.uschamber.com/article/unlocking-antitrust-antitrust-places-little-obligation-help-competitors-part-1
The run-down on vertical mergers under current antitrust law.
Unlocking Antitrust: Evaluating Vertical Mergers
https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/unlocking-antitrust-evaluating-vertical-mergers
Our SVP of International Regulatory Affairs Sean Heather breaks down everything you need to know about antitrust and horizontal mergers.
Unlocking Antitrust: Evaluating Horizontal Mergers
https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/unlocking-antitrust-evaluating-horizontal-mergers
Radical changes to antitrust laws are not the answer.
Unlocking Antitrust: Acquisitions of Nascent Firms
https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/unlocking-antitrust-acquisitions-of-nascent-firms
Here are three reasons why the simplicity of existing antitrust laws are also the laws' greatest strength.
Unlocking Antitrust: 3 Reasons Why Simplicity is Antitrust’s Greatest Strength
https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/unlocking-antitrust-3-reasons-why-simplicity-antitrust-s-greatest-strength
Various antitrust jurisdictions across the globe are considering big changes to their antitrust laws that could stray from sound economics.
What the Sabre-Farelogix Case Tells Us About the Future Of Antitrust Law
https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/what-the-sabre-farelogix-case-tells-us-about-the-future-of-antitrust-law
Five Things European Antitrust Gets Wrong
https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/five-things-european-antitrust-gets-wrong
Statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
There are reasons for concern with this decision.
A Closer Look at the EU’s $2.7 Billion Swipe at Google
https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/closer-look-the-eu-s-27-billion-swipe-google
The greatest difference between the U.S. and EU approaches lies with the philosophy that underpins the function of competition enforcement.
Competition Enforcement: The EU’s Current State of Mind
https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/competition-enforcement-the-eu-s-current-state-mind
Benjamin Franklin once said that “nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” But those following Brussels policy debates know of a third uniquely European certainty — the unbridled power of EU competition enforcement.
As foreseen, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Wednesday announced that tax arrangements offered by Luxembourg and the Netherlands are in violation of EU State aid laws.
EU Certainties - Death, Taxes and Competition Enforcement
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/eu-certainties-death-taxes-and-competition-enforcement
It underscores why American investors need investment protection and a meaningful Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism to be at the core of any transatlantic agreement.
The European Parliament’s Telling Vote and What It Means for the Transatlantic Trade Talks
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/the-european-parliament-s-telling-vote-and-what-it-means-the-transatlantic-trade
To safeguard international investments, countries enter into bilateral investment treaties (BITs). The United States also includes these safeguards for investments in our trade agreements. They ensure international investors are not subject to discrimination, are treated fairly and are compensated in the event of expropriation.
13 Myths about Investor-State Arbitration
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/13-myths-about-investor-state-arbitration
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Trans-Pacific Partnership column in the Washington Post is chock full of ill-informed opinion, but short on facts.
Sen. Warren’s TPP Criticism is Flawed, Missing the Point
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/sen-warren-s-tpp-criticism-flawed-missing-the-point
Rules for Radicals & the Trans-Atlantic Trade Talks
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/rules-radicals-the-trans-atlantic-trade-talks
In yesterday’s post Investaphobia, we examined the irrational fear of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). But the activists peddling fear of investment treaties have another line of attack: They claim investment treaties limit a government’s right to regulate.
Regulation in the Public Interest — or Just Discrimination?
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/regulation-the-public-interest-or-just-discrimination
Investaphobia and the Irrational Fear of Investor-State Dispute Settlement
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/investaphobia-and-the-irrational-fear-investor-state-dispute-settlement
A Look at the “I” in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/look-the-i-the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership
How much more did U.S. companies invest in China than Chinese companies invested in the United States in 2012? Two times as much? Three times? Ten times?
Paradigm Shift for the U.S.-China Economic Relationship
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/paradigm-shift-the-us-china-economic-relationship
Competition policy and trade policy have long been viewed to be complementary. Ideally, both unleash the power of competition in the marketplace to benefit consumers, not protect producers. In practice, however, promoting competition through antitrust enforcement is no simple matter.
Antitrust Enforcement: In Pursuit of Open, Competitive Markets
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/antitrust-enforcement-pursuit-open-competitive-markets
As the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations enter their final stage, its provisions addressing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) loom as one of its path-breaking contributions.
Emerging Trade Issues: The Challenge of State-Owned Enterprises
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/emerging-trade-issues-the-challenge-state-owned-enterprises
Type "investment protection," or "investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS)," into your search engine, and you’ll find misleading information abounds. There is a serious game of deception going on, and the same old isolationist critics are hoping you don’t notice the con they are trying to pull-off.
Balderdash and ISDS
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/balderdash-and-isds
Ah…behold the marketing power of Top 10 lists. They’ve been nightly punch lines on David Letterman’s “Late Show” for several decades. In honor of Letterman’s announcement that he would retire in 2015, we thought the trade policy world could use a little levity as well as a reality check.
Top 10 Reasons Why Shrill Trade Critics Have Zero Credibility
https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/top-10-reasons-why-shrill-trade-critics-have-zero-credibility
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