The Civil Liability Of The Commercial Bribery

With the social and economic development in China, Commercial bribery is developing and swiftly changing its forms. It has positioned itself at every conner and level in the economy, making itself well-known as a rule no one can ignore in the market. This has been a major roadblock for the healthy development of our socialist market economy. Legislations regulating commercial bribery lies in pieces of criminal, administrative, economic laws and regulations and has not shown a satisfactory results.As the only law setting up the civil liability for commercial bribery, Anti-unfair Competition Law, after its passing in1993, has stayed the same over the past2decades. Civil liability can not be thoroughly enforced with only a norm in principle in the Anti-unfair Competition Law. Commercial bribery civil liability system with detailed rules and regulation has to be built to rein in the uncontrolled situation caused by commercial bribery.This essay are composed of5segments. The first part tells the significance of being for commercial bribery civil liability system and the research of it. The second part is about theoretical basis for the commercial bribery civil liability system, which are the principle of fair competition and good faith. The third part is about the nature and elements of civil liability of commercial bribery. The forth part does inspection and evaluation on other countries’ commercial bribery civil liability system. Based on the previous research, The fifth part makes suggestions as to the improvement of the commercial bribery civil liability system.