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Mexico: US report sees benefit of stronger antitrust laws in Mexico

By  |  June 18, 2013
Mexico: US report sees benefit of stronger antitrust laws in Mexico

According to a new report from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, independent microbrewers in both the US and Mexico would benefit from stricter antimonopoly laws. Agreements that Mexico’s two largest brewers, Heineken and Model, make with retail outlets and distributors are harming microbrewers’ ability to find distribution outlets, says the reports. The opinion comes as the Mexican Association of Microbrewers and SAB Miller await a ruling on their challenge to those agreements, which are legal in Mexico, that was issued in 2010 to the nation’s antitrust regulator the CFC. The authority expects to announce its ruling on the issue later this month.

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