US Justice Department antitrust enforcement guidelines for international operations; US international antitrust enforcement - goals and guidelines; obtaining data on elasticities and foreign competitors under Hart-Scott-Rodino; the antitrust guidelines for international operations - an economic critique;Justice Department revised international antitrust guidelines and US antitrust policy in international trade; EC rules against "illicit trade practices" - policy cosmetics or international law enforcement?; reconciling EC antitrust and antidumping, transport and trade safeguard policies - practical problems; antidumping laws - a time for restriction; EC new commercial policy instrument and EEC competition and antidumpoing law; new EEC regulation on knowhow licensing; the horizontal effects of licensing a technology as dealt with by EEC competitionpolicy; new EEC regulation of knowhow licensing; new EEC block exemption regulation on franchising; the franchising regulation - a potential laboratory for examining EEC competition policy; new EEC regulation of franchising; national anti-competitive legislation and community law. (part contents)