Regulating Competition Across Borders: Antitrust Law in the United States, European Union, and India

  • Unique Paper ID: 183715
  • PageNo: 3032-3039
  • Abstract:
  • Antitrust laws are the laws that are enforced as an instrumental of regulation of anti-competitive practices and to ensure fair competition in the competitive market. In this paper we are going to discuss antitrust in jurisdiction of US, INDIA, and European Union’s markets. There are different phases of evolution of antitrust in these countries. The differences and similarities in approach to matters of monopolistic practices, cartelization and market power abuse have been examined by comparing the legal framework in place, landmark cases, and enforcement mechanisms in these regions. From this comparison, the study understands the challenges of globalization, and changing economy towards the formation of a new aspect of antitrust regulation. And, we the related laws to antitrust in US that is Sherman act, and competition law in India and European union competition law and how they were established or brought into force and their historical context from 1890 to till date. This research paper mainly focuses on the economic aspects of antitrust with addition of dealing with landmark cases of those countries.

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@article{183715,
        author = {B. Sravan Chandra},
        title = {Regulating Competition Across Borders: Antitrust Law in the United States, European Union, and India},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {3},
        pages = {3032-3039},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=183715},
        abstract = {Antitrust laws are the laws that are enforced as an instrumental of regulation of anti-competitive practices and to ensure fair competition in the competitive market. In this paper we are going to discuss antitrust in jurisdiction of US, INDIA, and European Union’s markets. There are different phases of evolution of antitrust in these countries. The differences and similarities in approach to matters of monopolistic practices, cartelization and market power abuse have been examined by comparing the legal framework in place, landmark cases, and enforcement mechanisms in these regions. From this comparison, the study understands the challenges of globalization, and changing economy towards the formation of a new aspect of antitrust regulation. And, we the related laws to antitrust in US that is Sherman act, and competition law in India and European union competition law and how they were established or brought into force and their historical context from 1890 to till date. This research paper mainly focuses on the economic aspects of antitrust with addition of dealing with landmark cases of those countries.},
        keywords = {Antitrust Law, Competition Law, Monopolies, Cartelization, Sherman Act, European Union Competition Law, Competition Commission of India (CCI), Digital Markets, Predatory Pricing, Globalization, Market Dominance, Rule of Reason, Cross-Border Regulation},
        month = {August},
        }

Cite This Article

Chandra, B. S. (2025). Regulating Competition Across Borders: Antitrust Law in the United States, European Union, and India. International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology (IJIRT), 12(3), 3032–3039.

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