Bilateral cooperation: The USA and China sign an antitrust memorandum of understanding in an effort to promote communication and cooperation among the antitrust agencies of the two countries

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") on Competition, 27 July 2011 In view of the growing importance of Chinese competition law, designed for a market of more than 1.3 billion consumers, i.e. almost four times the number of consumers in the United States, it seemed useful for the American competition authorities to enter into a cooperation agreement with China, following quite closely the European Commission, which had already committed itself in 2003 to the "Competition Policy Dialogue" signed in 2003 (see François Souty, "Chine: la loi Anti-monopole du 30 août 2007 et l'émergence d'un droit chinois moderne de la concurrence", in French only).). In early