Foreword

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FOREWORD

The American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law is pleased to

present the Price Discrimination Handbook. The circumstances under

which sellers can charge different prices to different customers, and

customers can accept those prices, continue to raise serious compliance

issues, and generate litigation under the federal Robinson-Patman Act,

various state statutes in the United States and, increasingly, under the

competition laws in jurisdictions located throughout the world. This

handbook is the Section’s first major publication dedicated solely to

price discrimination issues in over 20 years. It provides a detailed

review of federal and state price discrimination laws, as well as an

overview of price discrimination law in the European Union; selected EU

member countries; China; India; Brazil; and a number of other

jurisdictions throughout the globe.

The Section is grateful to project co-chairs Scott P. Perlman and Saul

P. Morgenstern, and their team of contributing authors and editors, for

undertaking this challenging task. The Section also thanks Robert L.

Hubbard, Chair of the Section’s Pricing Conduct Committee, for his

support and oversight of this project. We trust this book will serve as a

useful guide both for the antitrust enforcement community and for

attorneys in private practice who counsel and represent clients dealing

with price discrimination issues in the U.S. and internationally.

November 2012 Theodore Voorhees, Jr.

Chair, Section of Antitrust Law

American Bar Association

2012-2013