Study On The System Of Effective Regulation Of International Cartels

Along with the accelerated process of the economic globalization, the cartel has broken through the limitations of countries, and formed the cartel organization with the international nature. A series of illegal behaviors of international cartels, such as:ultra-high pricing, dividing the global market, restricting or distributing the product sales, will lead to a serious negative influence on international market. Whether developed or developing countries are all subject to these illegal behaviors. This has caused a widespread concern from the Antitrust department all over the world. In view of the harmful effects of international cartels, many countries have already regarded it as illegal. Especially the western developed countries, led by the United States, Canada and the European Union, proposed a series of investigation and sanctions to deal with the cartel, which maintained the interests and social welfare of the consumers to a certain extent. However, the anti-monopoly legislation of developing countries is not perfect, there are still big shortfalls that existed in investigation of evidence, litigation, sanctions and so on, besides, a lot of international cartel members are from the developed countries, they limit the foreign trade of the developing countries by all means in order to protect their own interests, we can see that the bad effect of the international cartels on the economic and social produce of the developing countries is much worse than that on developed countries. In order to protect the interests of consumers and maintain the market order, the developing countries need urgently to learn and absorb the advanced experiences in antitrust legislation from the developed countries to improve their own system of antitrust legislation constantly, in order to crack down on the illegal behavior of the international cartels.In this paper, the content is divided into five parts. The basic structure is as follows:Chapter one is the introduction, in this section we raise the issue and give an introduction of the background, we also note the research status quo of the domestic and foreign scholars, the purpose and meaning of this issue. The second chapter is a detailed description of international cartels, in this chapter, we give a detail description of the definition and characteristics of international cartels, we also make a distinction between international cartels and export cartels. Chapter three and four are the focus of this paper. Chapter three analyzes some penalties for international cartels in developed countries, we mainly introduced some antitrust laws and a series of measures for investigating and sanctioning international cartels in the United States and EU, we also use case analysis method to analyze the strength of penalties for international cartels in these countries. In chapter four, we put forward some suggestions that mainly for developing countries in the fight against international cartels, such as, to learn and absorb the advanced experiences in antitrust legislation from the developed countries to improve their own system of antitrust legislation constantly, to strengthen international cooperation, in order to regulate the international cartel effectively. Chapter five is the final chapter of this paper, belonging to the conclusion part, main ideas and conclusions of this paper are summarized in this part.