43. Fact Pattern

Naida Baronowski is an American fashion designer who has a design firm in Chicago. Naida has been successful in the U.S. and wants to expand her operation overseas. She hopes to open shops in Paris, Milan, Madrid, Rome, Vienna, and Moscow in the next several years. Nalda is unfamillar with foreign operations. She comes to you, her attorney, for advice about how she should pursue her goal of becoming an international fashion company. Refer to the Fact Pattern. Naida opens a shop in Madrid, and has incomplete pieces of her clothes sent to Spain from her Jollet, IIl. plant. The materials go to an area where they are assembled into completed clothing. The finished products are shipped to Madrid. The Spanish government taxes the finished clothes once they leave the area. This area is known as:

O a qualified trade area

O a foreign-trade zone

O a duty-free port

O a non-aligned trade zone

O a developing port area

Which of the following actions, if potentially anti competitive, is least likely to be a violation of the antitrust laws?

a.The merger of a financially sound corporation with a competitor in a failing condition.

b.The acquisition of substantially all of the assets of a competing corporation.

c.The acquisition of a controlling stock interest in a directly competing corporation.

d.A horizontal merger of competing corporations.