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Joint Business Ventures In The Central American Common Market, Michael W. Gordon

Vanderbilt Law Review

The European Economic Community's Treaty of Rome was referred to by Paul Monet as the first great anti-trust law in Europe. This view is undoubtedly predicated on the belief that the Treaty of Rome would break up the large cartels existing in the individual European nations by providing relatively uninhibited competition from other nations. However, this has not proved true since many of the old cartels remain strong. Conversely, other individuals expressed concern about the proposed EEC and feared that giant European cartels might develop. These concerns equally proved to be erroneous. With respect to the CACM, at least one …