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United States V. Bechtel Corporation: Antitrust And The Arab Blacklist, James H. Longstreet

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

In January 1977, the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and the Bechtel Corporation entered a proposed final settlement of the antitrust suit filed by the United States one year earlier. The complaint had charged that Bechtel, one of the world's largest construction firms, and four of its affiliates, had implemented the Arab League boycott of Israel and of "pro-Israeli" domestic firms. This settlement of the Antitrust Division's first attack on the thirty-year-old Arab boycott has resulted in a consent accord which outlines a permissible course of conduct for United States firms seeking trade with the Arab world, but leaves …