Abstract
The 1980 amendments to the German Law Against Restraints of Competition imposed new governmental antitrust controls over the activities of “pure” export cartels, which restrain competition only with respect to export markets. The amendments were a reaction to the decision in the Oil Field Pipes case, which had held that cartels not affecting the German market were beyond the jurisdictional reach of the cartel law. The amendments require reporting of “pure” export cartels and subject them to tighter regulation by the federal minister of economics in the hope of controlling abuse in the free world economic system and of encouraging multilateral reductions of anticompetitive export cartel practices. The Webb-Pomerene Act and proposed amendments to that act do not go as far in attempting to control these activities.
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