Detecting cartels, deceptive marketing: US FTC experts share analytical techniques, practices with CCP

The international experts of United States (US) Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shared with the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP), the analytical techniques and practices deployed by the US FTC for detecting/investigating cartels, deceptive marketing practices and abuse of dominant position.
According to a press release of the CCP issued here on Friday, CCP in collaboration with the USAID, US Department of Commerce's Commercial Law Development Programme (CLDP) and US FTC conducted a two-day workshop on Competition Law for its professional staff. The aim of the workshop was to build capacity of the CCP's professional staff in key enforcement areas ie investigating cartel agreements, abuse of dominance, merger review, deceptive marketing and to enable them to learn from international best practices.
US FTC is the US federal agency responsible for anti-trust and consumer protection. The workshop was conducted by experts from the FTC Russell Damtoft, Associate Director, (Office of International Affairs) and Krisztian Katona, Counsel for International Anti-trust.
Damtoft presented the analysis deployed by the FTC in identifying and investigating cartels and dealing with deceptive marketing practices. Katona focused on how to identify instances where a firm was abusing its dominant position and merger review. The international experts shared the analytical techniques and practices deployed by the US FTC, which could also be adopted by the CCP.
Vadiyya Khalil, Chairperson CCP, thanked Joe Yang, Attorney Advisor, CLDP and the experts from US FTC for organising the training and hoped that such collaboration between the two agencies would continue in the future. The Chairperson awarded certificates to the participants of the workshop.-PR