Antitrust Apply

In the movement of the economic globalization, the domestic market hasbeen significantly affected by the trans-border monopoly activities. In order to dealwith these activities, many countries seek approaches to extraterritorial applicationof its own antitrust law. The United States of America is the forerunner that appliedits own antitrust law to anticompetitive conducts from abroad, and has establishedthe relevant perfect system as a result of practicing for almost a century. However,because of the unilateral policy in the U.S., this practice has been caused muchretaliation and withstands from other countries. The European and other countrieshave developed their own standards on extraterritorial application of antitrust lawbased on the observation of the American experience plus individual actualsituation. The People's Republic of China, however, should study legislations andlegal practices of those foreign countries;then abandon pure unilateral approachand combine unilateral approach with bilateral approach by introducing the theoryof Lois d'application immediate so as to constitute more reasonable system ofextraterritorial application.