- Collection:
- Dean Rusk International Law Center Collections
- Title:
- Approach to Horizontal Restraint: Reliance on Exemption from Antimonopoly Act in Japan as Contrasted with Antitrust Laws in the United States
- Creator:
- Sumii, Yutaka
- Date of Original:
- 1992-01-01
- Subject:
- University of Georgia. School of Law
Law--Study and teaching
International law - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- dissertations
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Antitrust and Trade Regulation -- Comparative and Foreign Law
American politicians and businessmen have criticized the Antimonopoly Act, Japanese antitrust legislation, for allowing horizontal restraints on trade known as cartels. This paper compares and contrasts U.S. antitrust laws with regards to horizontal restrains on trade from that of Japan. A highlighted difference between U.S. and Japanese antitrust legislation is the use of exemptions. The Antimonopoly Act provides for more exemptions immunizing a cartel, such as exceptions for cartels formed during a depression or when the defendants have little market power, than does similar legislation in the U.S. To illustrate how the exemption for cartels in a depressed industry applies in Japan, a case study of the Japanese shipbuilding industry is examined. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/stu_llm/160
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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