From Sea to Shining Sea: A New Approach to Interpreting the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act
Abstract
The Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act (FTAIA) was passed in 1982 to govern the application of the Sherman Act to antitrust violations that occurred abroad. While the statute received little attention in its early years, public and private plaintiffs have recently begun to collect large fines and penalties under its jurisdiction. As the number of parties subject to these judgments has continued to grow, the increasing focus on the FTAIA has caused uneven development of the statute: while certain aspects of the FTAIA were defined and refined by judicial interpretation, other language in the statute remained underdeveloped. This Comment proposes a new interpretation of the ¿direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect¿ requirement of the FTAIA. This new interpretation provides courts with the means to interpret a section of the FTAIA by balancing previous judicial attempts at deciphering the statute with the intent of the members of Congress who drafted it.
Recommended Citation
Gerard F. Bifulco,
From Sea to Shining Sea: A New Approach to Interpreting the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act,
64
Emory L. J.
869
(2015).
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/elj/vol64/iss3/5