UNILATERAL CONDUCT WORKBOOK CHAPTER 5: EXCLUSIVE DEALING

The term ―exclusive dealing is generally used to describe an arrangement through which an upstream seller‘s goods are sold to a distributor or retailer under the condition that the distributor or retailer does not sell similar competing products. The term exclusive dealing may also describe an arrangement by which a downstream purchaser requires an upstream seller not to sell its product to any competing downstream purchasers. This Chapter focuses on the first type of exclusive dealing arrangement.