Trade Associations and Private Antitrust Litigation in China

Hao Qian, Apr 16, 2013

Trade associations present a peculiar issue in China’s competition law, due to their unusual origin and development. No voluntarily established business associations were possible or necessary in the era of central planning, when the Chinese economy was based on state-ownership and bureaucratically managed by the government. Only when China embarked on a new course to embrace a market economy in the early 1980s did trade associations begin to emerge, but they were fa