LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 7 March 2018

* The Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica (Cofece), Mexico’s federal anti-trust commission, has announced that it has opened an investigation into the probable existence of an illicit concentration in the domestic petrol distribution and sales market. In a statement Cofece said that it has received complaints that following Mexico’s 2013-2014 energy sector reform, which opened up the country’s oil sector to increased private sector participation, there has been a series of mergers, acquisitions, and commercial alliances among petrol-station owners that may have undermined competition in the sector. Cofece will now investigate these complaints to determine if any of these violate anti-trust regulations. 

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