Editing United States antitrust law (section)

====International cooperation====
Despite considerable effort by the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]], the Federal government attempted to extend antitrust cooperation with other countries for mutual detection, prosecution and enforcement. A bill was unanimously passed by the [[United States Congress|US Congress]];<ref>{{cite web|title=Congressional Record, Volume 140 Issue 145 (Friday, October 7, 1994)|url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1994-10-07/html/CREC-1994-10-07-pt2-PgS92.htm|website=www.gpo.gov|access-date=25 June 2017|archive-date=2018-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101082416/https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1994-10-07/html/CREC-1994-10-07-pt2-PgS92.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> however by 2000 only one [[International treaty|treaty]] has been signed<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zanettin|first1=Bruno|title=Cooperation between antitrust agencies at the international level|date=2002|publisher=Hart|location=Oxford [u.a.]|isbn=1841133515|pages=128–129}}</ref> with [[Australia]].<ref>[http://www3.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1999/22.html "Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America on Mutual Antitrust Enforcement Assistance ATS 22 of 1999"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416125826/http://www3.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1999/22.html |date=2017-04-16 }}. Australasian Legal Information Institute, Australian Treaties Library. Retrieved on 15 April 2017.</ref> On {{dts|3 July 2017}} the [[Australian Competition & Consumer Commission]] announced it was seeking explanations from a US company, [[Apple Inc|Apple]] In relation to potentially anticompetitive behaviour against an Australian bank in possible relation to [[Apple Pay]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Apple Has Killed Off Westpac's Cash-Transferring Keyboard App|date=26 June 2017|url=https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/06/apple-has-killed-off-westpacs-cash-transferring-keyboard-app/|access-date=9 Nov 2019|archive-date=9 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109013511/https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/06/apple-has-killed-off-westpacs-cash-transferring-keyboard-app/|url-status=live}}</ref> It is not known whether the treaty could influence the enquiry or outcome.

In many cases large US companies tend to deal with overseas antitrust within the overseas jurisdiction, autonomous of US laws, such as in [[Microsoft Corp v Commission]] and more recently, [[Google]] v [[European Union]] where the companies were heavily fined.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40406542|title=Google hit with record EU fine over Shopping service|publisher=[[BBC News]]|access-date=6 July 2017|archive-date=3 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703215547/http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40406542|url-status=live}}</ref> Questions have been raised with regards to the consistency of antitrust between jurisdictions where the same antitrust corporate behaviour, and similar antitrust legal environment, is prosecuted  in one jurisdiction but not another.<ref>{{cite web|title=Comparing The US And EU Microsoft Antitrust Prosecutions: How Level is the Playing Field?|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26423319|website=ResearchGate|access-date=6 July 2017|language=en}}</ref>