Competition officials and staff from several regional countries attended this North African Regional Competition Conference in Tunis, Tunisia on June 30, 2008, to present and discuss the issues, best practices and commonalities of their competition law advancement.

In response to the request by the Palestine Standards Institution (PSI), CLDP invited two PSI officials to participate in the NIST Standards in Trade Workshop on WTO/TBT Inquiry Point Operations for India, Middle East, and North Africa.

Since 2006, CLDP, in cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, has provided technical assistance to the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) to help implement the new competition law and foster a competition culture in Egypt.

Through the support and recommendation of the Commercial Law Development Program, the Senior Economist of the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) was accepted as a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) International Fellow worked in Washington DC from mid September 2008 until mid December 2008 in the FTC...

Egyptian Officials from the Egyptian Competition Authority participated in the Fordham Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy in New York City.

CLDP conducted a week of faculty consultations and interactive workshops to help Sultan Qaboos University College of Law and Qatar University College of Law establish international commercial arbitration programs centered on participation in an international competition (or moot).

In conjunction with the Bahrain Legal and Judicial Studies Institute and the Bahraini Ministry of Justice, CLDP conducted a two-day workshop on Bankruptcy and Insolvency in Bahrain. Two U.S. federal bankruptcy judges traveled with CLDP staff to Manama to lead the workshop.

In response to the request by the Moroccan Ministry of Industry and Commerce, CLDP organized a week-long program in the US for officials from the Moroccan Ministry of Industry and Commerce as well as representatives from the Moroccan agribusiness associations. The program focused on providing the...

CLDP hosted a historical judicial exchange with Saudi Arabia during the first two weeks of November.

CLDP sponsored the travel of USTR's Marideth Sandler to Tunisia and Egypt, October 24-November 4, 2008.