This article is based on the principal considerations for competition policy mainly in the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, as well as its contribution to economic development. It also explains the basic elements of these policies in developing economies and the way laws and institutions derive from them. It likewise identifies international rules proposed such as: Principles for international trade, intellectual property, national treaties, quantitative restrictions to trade, agreements on investment matters, antidumping and subsidy agreements.
