Justice Dept. to Work With China on Antitrust

By Liz Crampton, Bloomberg BNA

The Justice Department’s antitrust division plans to continue working with China’s antitrust authorities to strengthen its competition agenda, a top DOJ official said Aug. 30 in Shanghai.

The speech from Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roger Alford marks the first international antitrust comments from this administration. Alford noted that Makan Delrahim, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the antitrust division, “intends to make international engagement a priority.”

The efforts to coordinate with China on competition issues began in the Obama administration when Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Bill Baer led a delegation to China on legal ...