Abstract

LEAL BUENFIL, Rubén. Correlation of Trade, Competition, and Anti-Corruption Regulations between Mexico and the United States.Translated byLuis Cejudo-Espinosa. Frontera norte [online]. 2022, vol.34, e2289.  Epub Feb 10, 2023. ISSN 2594-0260.  https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2289.

To make public policy recommendations, the deductive method with a qualitative approach was used to identify the empirical correlations between trade, competition, and anti-corruption regulations between Mexico and the United States, within the framework of USMCA. In the light of the findings, it is recommended to limit to a minimum the exceptions available in trade agreements that aim to restrict the application of domestic laws on economic competition and anti-corruption, as well as to standardize the use of the “rule of reason” in competition between administrative and judicial authorities in both countries to harmonize and provide certainty to international transactions and binational production chains. The limitations of this research are those inherent to the subjectivity of the deductive method, but it provides unpublished results as a ground for further investigations.

Keywords : international law; economic competition; anti-corruption; Mexico; United States.