Investigation of Unfair Competition Policies in Iranian Laws

Abstract

The world has realized that the path to achieving public welfare and economic growth is entering the free market, where competition is a fundamental pillar. Competition enhances public welfare, economic growth, and technological advancement. It causes businesses to make optimal use of available resources, reduce production costs, and produce higher quality, newer, and cheaper products to thus capture a larger market share and consequently earn higher profits. Therefore, the presence of competition among businesses producing similar products ultimately benefits consumers, as the motive for rival businesses to earn higher profits ultimately results in consumers obtaining better quality products at more reasonable prices. "Unfair competition" is one of the modern concepts that has emerged in the last century due to the growing expansion of commercial activities and their increasing importance in human life, becoming prevalent in legal literature. The variety and volume of behaviors manifested in the market environment by actors to such an extent that some countries have enacted special regulations to prevent the adverse effects of these commercial practices in the market, assessed as fraudulent, unjust, or contrary to honorable trading. This research examines the policies of unfair commercial competition in Iranian laws.