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The Antitrust Laws In Foregin Commerce, Robert A. Nitschke
The Antitrust Laws In Foregin Commerce, Robert A. Nitschke
Michigan Law Review
The Sherman Act applies to trade or commerce "with foreign nations." Are there differences in the act's application to foreign trade compared with its application to domestic commerce? The Attorney General's National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws was constituted at a time when this question was pressing for an answer.
During the 1920's and 1930's, the international cartel movement was in full Hood. American companies participated in some of these international arrangements, often in the belief that they were a necessary condition for world trade and upon the legal premise that restrictions adjunctive to patent and know-how licenses were …
Antitrust Policy In Distribution, Kendall B. Debevoise
Antitrust Policy In Distribution, Kendall B. Debevoise
Michigan Law Review
The American genius lies quite as much in distribution as in manufacturing. Other peoples have demonstrated equal or greater creative ability in many fields. And it is debatable whether their talents are any less at mass production given adequate economic demand. But they have nowhere shown the American genius for distribution. It is axiomatic that if you manufacture in Detroit and your potential customer lives in New York, you need mutual friends. We seem to have figured out better ways to provide better friends for this purpose than any other nation.
But manufacturing came first. Someone had to build a …