Trade and Antitrust: An End to Isolationism

Antitrust and trade policy tend to operate in silos. Antitrust takes trade and trade policy as an exogenous factor in enforcement and trade policy does the same for market structure, with both arguing that the objectives of antitrust or trade policy must be dealt with by their respective regulators. This is unhealthy as trade policy most likely influences market structure in global markets and antitrust with only national jurisdiction is limited in its ability to address global dominance. The ar