Antitrust Law Thinking of Countering Foreign Sanctions:Missions,Functions and Mechanisms
The challenges faced in countering foreign sanctions require the antitrust law to play its due role.The value targets and policy-tools characteristics of antitrust law enable it to undertake the missions of dealing with tough problems of anti-foreign sanctions,the legal bases of which can be found in Antitrust Law,Anti-Foreign Sanction Law and Foreign Trade law.Antitrust Law is functional in dispelling the pro-motion of foreign companies'competition power through sanctions,deterring the malicious use of sanctions by foreign companies,strengthening market competitiveness of sanctioned Chinese enterprises,and solving the problems of extraterritorial application of Anti-Foreign Sanction Law.Based on the policy orientation of counteracting foreign sanctions,the Antitrust Law enforcement department needs to effectively deter foreign enterprises that promote or maliciously utilize sanctions by interpreting and applying the provisions of the an-titrust law on various monopoly behaviors and their legal liabilities in a purposeful and targeted manner,so as to maintain the due market competitiveness of Chinese sanctioned enterprises in international trade.
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