A surge in EU measures against cheap chemical imports from China and elsewhere has raised questions about the effectiveness of the bloc's trade defense toolbox. Industry representatives and government official... (more story)

The US and South Korea are walking a tight rope as officials on both sides hold together a trade deal despite mounting allegations from Republicans that Seoul’s policing of digital markets discriminates agains... (more story)

When the European Commission ordered Apple to open up the iPhone, it probably didn’t think its own IT team would see an interoperability request rejected. Microsoft, Santander, Meta Platforms and AliPay are am... (more story)

Meta Platforms’ entanglement with French investigators last month shows the antitrust pitfalls for dominant companies in supplying data to partners on the other side of the negotiating table. Meta’s tactic of ... (more story)

Amazon’s e-commerce empire is facing a new kind of antitrust scrutiny after the New Jersey Attorney General filed a suit Tuesday targeting the treatment of workers who deliver goods within a custom-built suppl... (more story)

Democrats in the US Congress have proposed ending utility patent protection for most future seed innovations, limiting protection instead to the Plant Variety Protection Act and Plant Patent Act. Supporters ar... (more story)

The jailing of the undertaker responsible for one of the biggest scandals in the UK funeral sector in recent years has highlighted the government's failure to heed warnings that greater oversight of morticians... (more story)

The app store ecosystems of Google and Apple have been under siege for years as regulators, legislators and litigators across the globe seek more competition among major digital platforms. While that pressure ... (more story)