Public Interest Factors — A Shared Zone of Antitrust and ITC Investigations

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Public Interest Factors — A Shared Zone of Antitrust and ITC Investigations – Rundong Liu (Co-Effort Law Firm)

ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes theoretically and practically a tendency of importance the role of Public Interest factors play in International Trade Commission (ITC) 337 investigations as it did in the forum of Anti-Monopoly Law in recent years.

It first reviews the development of Public Interest factors in Anti-Monopoly Law, demonstrates the way in which we are undertaking to advance a new competition culture and policy. It then explains, from different perspectives and stages throughout the ITC 337 investigation process, the growing importance of Public Interest, which has the tendency in becoming the underlying rationale of the ITC ruling against serious threat to innovation and competition in a free market.

In this paper, analysis for some most remarkable cases will show us that ITC 337 investigation, as a powerful process to investigate unfair foreign competition and protect U.S. domestic industry, and Anti-Monopoly Law, as a powerful tool to direct economy and achieve its market policy goal, had a shared important change with respects to Public Interest factors.