Title 15Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73

§6201 Disclosure to foreign antitrust authority of antitrust evidence

Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 88— - INTERNATIONAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE › § 6201

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Attorney General and FTC may give antitrust evidence to a foreign antitrust authority under a mutual-assistance agreement in effect under this chapter, if section 6207 allows and section 6204 does not, to decide or enforce violations.

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Title 15, §6201

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In accordance with an antitrust mutual assistance agreement in effect under this chapter, subject to section 6207 of this title, and except as provided in section 6204 of this title, the Attorney General of the United States and the Federal Trade Commission may provide to a foreign antitrust authority with respect to which such agreement is in effect under this chapter, antitrust evidence to assist the foreign antitrust authority—
(1)in determining whether a person has violated or is about to violate any of the foreign antitrust laws administered or enforced by the foreign antitrust authority, or
(2)in enforcing any of such foreign antitrust laws.

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This chapter, referred to in text, was in original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 103–438, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4597, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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Pub. L. 103–438, § 1, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4597, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter and amending section 46, 57b–1, 1311, and 1312 of this title] may be cited as the ‘International Antitrust

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Assistance Act of 1994’.”

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15 U.S.C. § 6201

Title 15Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73