The Cost of Making COFECE Disappear

Modern-day competition policy in Mexico is, as many of the county’s institutions, the result of Mexico’s international obligations, mainly of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which entered into force in 1994. Since then, applicable legislation for competition has evolved drastically. Mexico’s COFECE is a completely different institution to its predecessor, the extinct Comisión Federal de Competencia. Our current authorities enjoy constitutional independence –even from the Presid