Question

The is the federal agency responsible for enforcing antitrust laws in the United States.

In general, antitrust laws are ______ and ______ to enforce.

Answer 1

Answer:

1] Department of Justice(DOJ) is the federal agency responsible for enforcing antitrust laws in the United States.

The DOJ is the only agency that can prosecute violations of the Sherman Act. Those violations may be either criminal or civil. Both the DOJ and the FTC may ask a court to impose various remedies.

2]

In general, antitrust laws are complex and time-consuming and costly to enforce.

Antitrust laws are enforced extraterritorially, both by the United States and by the EU. This makes compliance difficult for companies, since there are many differing laws and many overlapping jurisdictions. In addition, the laws themselves differ on their basic assumptions. In the United States, antitrust is based on a per se principle, so all antitrust activity is illegal, regardless of the effects of the behavior. In the EU, competition is thought of as harmful when there is demonstrated injury to a consumer or competitor.

Feedback: The enforcement of antitrust law is time-consuming and costly. The United States has proposed a world organization for the clearing of antitrust issues.