International Assistance Program

The FTC helps countries around the world to develop and enhance their own competition and consumer protection programs. We explain how competition and truthful advertising and marketing advance economic efficiency, consumer welfare, and consumer choice.

What We Offer

  • Materials for training your own lawyers and economists
  • Experienced FTC competition and consumer protection lawyers and economists to work day-to-day with your organization over the course of a few months, or on a short-term basis to share expertise about specific topics — for instance, e-commerce
  • Training on basic investigative skills and techniques
  • Short fellowships at the FTC for foreign agency employees

In the past, our lawyers and economists have helped countries with little experience to set up and strengthen framework competition and consumer protection laws or enforcement institutions. On competition matters, we work jointly with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.

We’ve worked in these and other regions: the Andean region, Central America, Central and Eastern Europe, Egypt, India, Mexico, South Africa, China, and Southeast Asia.

Let us know if your organization would benefit from this type of assistance.

How We're Funded

We are funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and the Commercial Law Development Program of the Department of Commerce. Increasingly, we also use our own funds.

Other Resources

  • Resources from our workshop (February 2008)
  • Joint report with the Department of Justice (February 2008)
  • Report to OECD on The U.S. Experience in Competition Law Technical Assistance: A Ten Year Perspective (February 2002)

Last Modified: Monday, 02-Mar-2009 12:24:00 EST