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As commerce continually becomes more international, an increasing number of the FTC’s antitrust investigations involve international issues. To promote and protect free and vigorous competition, the FTC continues to build and strengthen relationships with competition agencies around the world. These relationships are a key component of the FTC’s competition enforcement program, and they facilitate the agency’s efforts to promote convergence toward sound competition enforcement and policy. The FTC continues to work closely with the European Union, Canada, and many other jurisdictions on cases of mutual interest.

The FTC also works with several multilateral organizations to facilitate dialogue and convergence toward sound competition policy and enforcement, particularly the (ICN), the (OECD), the (UNCTAD), and regional organizations such as the (APEC). The FTC is a member of the ICN Steering Group, in which Chair Khan serves as vice chair for digital. Recently, the FTC helped found the Inter-American Competition Alliance, which fosters enforcement cooperation in the Americas through regular conference calls on matters of mutual interest.

The FTC plays an active role in negotiating competition chapters of free trade agreements. The FTC also provides competition technical assistance to countries transitioning to market economies and establishing new competition regimes.

Resources

• The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission's International Antitrust Program
• Key Speeches and Presentations
• US Submissions to OECD Competition Committee and other international fora
• International Cooperation Agreements
• 19th ICN Annual Conference, co-hosted by the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission and Department of Justice, Antitrust Division

Additional Information

• International Waivers of Confidentiality in FTC Antitrust Investigations
• Antitrust Guidelines for International Â鶹´«Ã½ and Cooperation
• FTC's International Fellows Program
• Competition & Consumer Protection Authorities Worldwide

Contact Us

• Maria B. Coppola, t.202-326-2482 mcoppola@ftc.gov
  Director, Office of International Affairs
• Jon Nathan, t.202-326-2457 jnathan@ftc.gov
  Deputy Director for International Antitrust
  European Commission and Member States, India, and Israel; Cooperation
• Molly Askin, t.202-326-3663 maskin@ftc.gov
  International Discovery, Africa and the Middle East;
• Russell Damtoft, t.202-326-2893 rdamtoft@ftc.gov
  Canada, Mexico, Latin America, South America, Caribbean and Eastern Europe; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Andrew Heimert, t.202-326-2474 aheimert@ftc.gov
  Australia, China, New Zealand and the United Kingdom; Intellectual Property, Trade
• Tim Hughes, t.202-326-3503 thughes@ftc.gov
  Technical Assistance Coordinator; SE Asia and Middle East
• Cynthia Lagdameo, t.212-607-2828 clagdameo@ftc.gov
  ICN; OECD
• Joonsuk Lee, t.202-326-2823 jlee4@ftc.gov
  Japan; Korea
• Kristina Mulligan, t.202-326-3110 kmulligan@ftc.gov
  Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden
• Paul O'Brien, t.202-326-2831 pobrien@ftc.gov
  ICN Coordinator; G7; Agency Effectiveness