Tag: Office of International Affairs

The Federal Trade Commission was selected as president of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) for 2024-25 during a meeting this week in Sydney, Australia. The FTC’s...

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, and Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager of the European...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department (DOJ) today launched a two-day joint workshop as part of this year’s first Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s (APEC) Senior Officials Meeting...

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, and Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager of the European...

Today, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter participated in a G7 Joint Competition Policy Makers &...

The Federal Trade Commission participated in a trilateral meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, with enforcers from Mexico’s Federal Economic Competition Commission, Canada’s Competition Bureau, and the...

Leadership of the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice attended meetings in London this week as part of the Competition Enforcers Summit, which took place...

Today, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan and Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division participated in a Competition Enforcers Summit (Summit...

The Federal Trade Commission voted to withdraw its approval of the Vertical Merger Guidelines, issued jointly with the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the FTC’s Vertical Merger Commentary. The...

The Federal Trade Commission approved changes to its Rules of Practice to modernize the way it issues Trade Regulation Rules under Section 18 of the FTC Act, which will provide a roadmap for...

Staff from the Federal Trade Commission, Canada’s Competition Bureau, the European Commission Directorate General for Competition, the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority, the U.S. Department of...

The Federal Trade Commission and its counterpart competition enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad are launching a working group to update their approach to analyzing the effects of...

The Federal Trade Commission issued a report examining ways to enhance cooperation between the FTC and overseas competition and consumer protection authorities in order to maximize the effectiveness...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement.In June 2020, the FTC and the Department of Justice issued Vertical Merger Guidelines describing the principal...

The Federal Trade Commission signed an updated memorandum of understanding (MOU) with two Nigerian enforcement agencies to enhance communication and cooperation in a joint effort to combat cross...

The International Competition Network held its 19th annual conference on Sept. 14-17, 2020. Co-hosted by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, this was the...