By Francisco Beneke*

There is hardly a stronger way to show a state’s commitment to the goals of competition law than the “Pacto for Mexico”. This pact is a multi-partisan agreement in which competition is put at the center of the government’s policy to promote the development of the country. As a result of the pact, the constitution was amended and the Mexican competition authority was elevated to the category of an autonomous constitutional entity. Also, a new competition law was enacted on July this year. Whatever opinion anyone has on the substance of the constitutional amendments and the new competition law, Mexico’s intent is pretty clear: improve the country’s economic performance through the protection of the competitive process.

The new law gives greater investigative powers to the Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica (the Comisión), adds more types of conducts to its list of forbidden behavior and separates, to some…