The Trade Association System in Iran: Absence of Competition-Restrictive Activities and Market Fairness

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  • イランにおける同業者組合制度 : 競争制限的な事業者団体の不在と市場の公正性
  • イラン ニ オケル ドウギョウシャ クミアイ セイド : キョウソウ セイゲンテキ ナ ジギョウシャ ダンタイ ノ フザイ ト シジョウ ノ コウセイセイ

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<p>The Iranian government has introduced a trade association system that requires collaboration among traders and manufacturers who operate independent businesses in the domestic market to organize themselves into trade associations. This is a unique move considering the current global trend of governments enforcing antitrust legislation in an attempt to guarantee fair trade by prohibiting trade associations from participating in competition-restrictive activities. The introduction of this system is strongly related to the particular characteristics of Iran’s industrial organizations. In Iran,relationships between businesses are usually very weak. Collective competition restrictions are rarely endorsed by traders and manufacturers,let alone by an oligopoly of relatively large businesses. In this context, Iran’s trade association system is expected to remedy the inefficiency of its market and disorder caused by uncooperative business tendencies among traders and manufacturers.</p>

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  • アジア経済

    アジア経済 60 (4), 2-26, 2019-12

    日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所

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