Competition is not only the driving force behind social and economic development but also an important incentive for corporations to improve product quality, enhance service performance and raise operation efficiency. However, some companies might engage in different types of behaviours to interfere with the normal operation of the market in order to reduce the extent of competition. These behaviours are anti-competitive and corporations should refrain from engaging in these behaviours. The following are six common types of anti-competitive behaviour:

Examples of anti-competitive behaviours

1.

Price-fixing intended to distort the normal operation of the market, increase the cost for purchasers, and have the effect of impairing economic efficiency or free trade;

2. actions preventing or restricting the supply of goods or services to competitors, and have the effect of impairing economic efficiency or free trade;
3. agreements to share any market sector between participants on agreed geographic or customer lines, and have the effect of impairing economic efficiency or free trade;
4. unfair or discriminatory standards among members of a trade or professional body intended to deny newcomers a chance to enter or contest in the market, and have the effect of impairing economic efficiency or free trade;
5. joint boycotts intended to distort the normal operation of the market, deprive supply or choice to the targets of the boycott, and have the effect of impairing economic efficiency or free trade; and
6. bid-rigging, market allocation, sales and production quotas intended to distort the normal operation of the market, increase the cost for and reduce the choice and availability to purchasers, and have the effect of impairing economic efficiency or free trade.