As commerce continually becomes more international, an increasing number of the FTC’s antitrust investigations involve international issues. To promote and protect free and vigorous competition, the FTC continues to build and strengthen relationships with competition agencies around the world. These relationships are a key component of the FTC’s competition enforcement program, and they facilitate the agency’s efforts to promote convergence toward sound competition enforcement and policy. The FTC continues to work closely with the European Union, Canada, and many other jurisdictions on cases of mutual interest.
The FTC also works with several multilateral organizations to facilitate dialogue and convergence toward sound competition policy and enforcement, particularly the International Competition Network (ICN), the Competition Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and regional organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). The FTC is a member of the ICN Steering Group, in which Chair Khan serves as vice chair for digital. Recently, the FTC helped found the Inter-American Competition Alliance, which fosters enforcement cooperation in the Americas through regular conference calls on matters of mutual interest.
The FTC plays an active role in negotiating competition chapters of free trade agreements. The FTC also provides competition technical assistance to countries transitioning to market economies and establishing new competition regimes.
Resources
- The Federal Trade Commission's International Antitrust Program
- Key Speeches and Presentations
- US Submissions to OECD Competition Committee and other international fora
- International Cooperation Agreements
- 19th ICN Annual Conference, co-hosted by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
Additional Information
- International Waivers of Confidentiality in FTC Antitrust Investigations
- Antitrust Guidelines for International Enforcement and Cooperation
- FTC's International Fellows Program
- Competition & Consumer Protection Authorities Worldwide
- ICN Framework for Competition Agency Procedures
- U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s International Program
Contact Us
- Maria B. Coppola, t.202-326-2482 mcoppola@ftc.gov
Director, Office of International Affairs - Jon Nathan, t.202-326-2457 jnathan@ftc.gov
Deputy Director for International Antitrust
European Commission and Member States, India, and Israel; Cooperation - Molly Askin, t.202-326-3663 maskin@ftc.gov
International Discovery, Africa and the Middle East; - Russell Damtoft, t.202-326-2893 rdamtoft@ftc.gov
Canada, Mexico, Latin America, South America, Caribbean and Eastern Europe; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) - Andrew Heimert, t.202-326-2474 aheimert@ftc.gov
Australia, China, New Zealand and the United Kingdom; Intellectual Property, Trade - Tim Hughes, t.202-326-3503 thughes@ftc.gov
Technical Assistance Coordinator; SE Asia and Middle East - Cynthia Lagdameo, t.212-607-2828 clagdameo@ftc.gov
ICN; OECD - Joonsuk Lee, t.202-326-2823 jlee4@ftc.gov
Japan; Korea - Kristina Mulligan, t.202-326-3110 kmulligan@ftc.gov
Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden - Paul O'Brien, t.202-326-2831 pobrien@ftc.gov
ICN Coordinator; G7; Agency Effectiveness