On 31 March 2022, the Investigating Authority of the Federal Economic Competition Commission .
According to COFECE, the Market Under Investigation is important because an increasing number of consumers have chosen e-commerce for purchasing merchandise since the beginning of the pandemic.
The Market Under Investigation corresponds to the purchase and sale of retail merchandise through the Internet.
Barriers to competition and free competition make it difficult, and restrict, or prevent, the entry of new participants, and access to competitors, into the retail e-commerce market in Mexico.
The investigation should not be understood as a prejudgment of the restrictions on the conditions of effective competition into the Market Under Investigation, nor of the existence of barriers to competition and free competition and/or essential inputs.
This first of its kind investigation was initiated through a special procedure, aimed at identifying whether there are barriers to entry, free access in the digital markets.
E-commerce is understood as the “sale or purchase of goods or services, conducted over computer networks by methods specifically designed for the purpose of receiving or placing orders”.
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