OTTAWA--A new study warns that a WTO agreement on competition policy could have a number of negative consequences. It recommends that WTO Ministers reject a proposal to negotiate competition policy rules when they meet in Cancun in two weeks.
Titled Competition Policy in the WTO and FTAA: A Trojan Horse for International Trade Negotiations?, by Marc Lee and Charles Morand, the study notes that competition policy has traditionally been concerned with curbing excessive market power in the private sector.
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