Antitrust Chronicle® – The Seventh Circuit – Motorola Ruling / Global Supply Cartels and The American Consumer

Dear Readers,

At the heart of this edition is the conflict between the application of provisions of the Sherman Act, on the one hand, and the provisions of the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act of 1982 (“FTAIA”) on the other – to anticompetitive conduct arising offshore that adversely impacts on American consumers. This conflict came to fore in the Motorola v. AU Optronics Corp case relating to sale of liquid crystal display (“LCD”) panels at artificially inflated prices to Moto