Fair Trade Act 彙整 - Lee, Tsai & Partners

Aaron Chen & Sally Yang In September 2021, Fair Trade Commission fined food delivery platform Foodpanda NT$2 million for its improper restriction on trading counterparts’ business activity and restrain competition constituting a violation of Paragraph 5, Article 20 of the Fair Trade Act. This article analyzes noteworthy aspects of this case and raises issues worthy of further discussion from a private practice perspective.

2021 年 12 月 1 日

FTC Penalized Agoda’s Use of Competitor’s Name for Keyword Advertising (Taiwan)

Aaron Chen & Sally Yang The TFTC rendered a disposition of November 4, 2021, holding that Agoda's use of the corporate name of a competitor for its keyword advertisement with the heading that depicts the corporate name of Easytravel in parallel with Agoda's website URL in the advertisement. Since this is an obviously unfair method sufficient to undermine trading order, a fine of NT$1 million was imposed for violation of Article 25 of the Fair Trade Act.

2021 年 12 月 1 日

The Fair Trade Commission’s Investigation on Apple (Taiwan)

Aaron Chen and Julian Lai The Fair Trade Commission has begun investigating Apple’s decision not to include accessories when selling new iPhones and Apple’s transactional fee for software developers on App Store and its exclusive payment policy. The result of this investigation is worth following.

2021 年 12 月 1 日

The Fair Trade Commission’s investigation on Citibank (Taiwan)

Aaron Chen and Julian Lai The Fair Trade Commission will file an investigative report on Citibank’s contract with potential buyers requiring them to not recruit Citibank’s employees. The issue of this so-called No-Poaching Agreement has recently attracted authorities’ attention in the US and Japan. However, There were no relevant cases in Taiwan, so this investigation report is worthy of attention.