All Eyes on Antitrust Enforcement in China's Pharmaceutical Industry

Abstract

A wide range of recent antitrust enforcement actions in the pharmaceutical sector have taken place in China over the past months. All three Chinese antitrust authorities have been involved, and all types of anti-competitive conduct have been targeted.

The multiple enforcement actions by a number of regulators put the pharmaceutical sector very clearly into the spotlight. Very few other sectors have seen the same level of antitrust enforcement activism in recent months in China, and there does not seem to be an end in sight to this activism.

Keywords: Anti-Monopoly, Antitrust, Competition Law, China, AML, Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences

JEL Classification: K21