Acting Assistant Attorney General Andrew Finch’s remarks at Fordham Law’s FCLI International Antitrust Law & Policy Conference are mentioned in Bloomberg Big Law Business blog.
Finch also has stressed the importance of coordinating with foreign authorities in investigations. U.S. regulators and legislators have repeatedly said they want to dissuade foreign antitrust officials from discriminating against U.S. companies in their investigations by imposing standards that may not exist among U.S. enforcers. The U.S. and its foreign counterparts “should be able to address harm in our respective jurisdictions consistent with the principles of comity,” Finch said Sept. 15 at a speech at Fordham Law School.
Officials see the renegotiation of NAFTA as a means to reach that goal. Finch disclosed in that speech that the antitrust division, along with the Federal Trade Commission, is working closely with the U.S. Trade Representative on a competition chapter being incorporated into the NAFTA renegotiation.
“We look forward to working successfully with USTR and our close, long-time partners in Mexico and Canada to craft a competition chapter that affirms the basic rules of procedural fairness in competition law enforcement,” he said.