Should resale price maintenance continue to be banned?

Ian Searles

Trade Practices Law Journal

Ian Searles, ‘Should resale price maintenance continue to be banned?’ (1993) 1 Trade Practices Law Journal 184

Abstract

In considering whether resale price maintenance (RPM) should remain a per se offence under the Trade Practices Act 1974, this article discusses the regulation of the practice in a number of overseas countries and the longrunning debate, centred in the United States, on its competitive effects. The article also considers whether the practice should be permitted under the Act on public benefit grounds, and whether the Act's RPM provisions should apply to the supply of services as well as goods. The conclusions reached are similar to those of the Hilmer Committee (National Competition Policy, AGPS, August 1993, p 58) which recently considered these issues during its review of national competition policy.