Minisculea,a Small Nation That Exists on a Pacific Ocean Island,is

question 50

Multiple Choice

Minisculea,a small nation that exists on a Pacific Ocean island,is a major producer and seller of a substance known as XYZ.Minisculea is also the leader of a cartel of other XYZ producers.The cartel has raised XYZ prices,a fact of significant concern to the United States,given the many strategic uses to which XYZ can be put.U.S.officials have engaged in ongoing discussions with Minisculea about this subject.If Minisculea and the other cartel members are sued in a U.S.court for allegedly violating the U.S.antitrust acts by fixing the price at which they sold XYZ to U.S.customers,their best defense would be:

• A)the state action doctrine.
• B)the sovereign compulsion doctrine.
• C)the doctrine of sovereign immunity.
• D)the act of state doctrine.

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