Businesses are increasingly using collaboration to address concerns about sustainability, transparency, human rights, and labor conditions in global markets. Such collaborations include the development of certifications and standards, the sharing of information about factories and suppliers, and agreements to share facilities, like less than full delivery trucks. Yet at the same time, federal antitrust policies broadly prohibit agreements that restrain trade or commerce, creating the potential for innovative collaborations to result in legal prosecution. This article applies antitrust law to socially responsible and sustainable business collaboration in an effort to determine whether antitrust law chills potentially beneficial agreements. The article concludes that careful structuring of agreements can avoid many antitrust violations, but also finds that certain types of agreements, including those that could have the most impact on scarce resources and vulnerable commodity producers, are forbidden. Accordingly, this article argues that per se rules forbidding certain practices, including price fixing and resource sharing, be reconsidered in light of current economic and environmental conditions. It also questions certain assumptions about the benefits of competition in light of current environmental, human rights, and sustainability challenges.

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反托拉斯和对社会负责的协作：冷酷的结合？

企业越来越多地使用协作来解决对全球市场中的可持续性，透明度，人权和劳动条件的担忧。这种合作包括认证和标准的开发，关于工厂和供应商的信息共享以及共享设施的协议，例如少于满载卡车。但是，与此同时，联邦反托拉斯政策广泛禁止限制贸易或商业的协议，这为开展创新性合作以提起法律诉讼创造了潜力。本文将反托拉斯法应用于对社会负责和可持续的业务合作，以努力确定反托拉斯法是否使潜在的有利协议变冷。该文章的结论是，精心设计协议结构可以避免许多违反反托拉斯法的行为，但同时也发现，某些类型的协议（包括可能对稀缺资源和脆弱的商品生产商产生最大影响的协议）被禁止。因此，本文认为，根据当前的经济和环境状况，应重新考虑禁止某些实践的规则本身，包括定价和资源共享。鉴于当前的环境，人权和可持续性挑战，它也质疑关于竞争的好处的某些假设。根据当前的经济和环境状况重新考虑。鉴于当前的环境，人权和可持续性挑战，它也质疑关于竞争的好处的某些假设。根据当前的经济和环境状况重新考虑。鉴于当前的环境，人权和可持续性挑战，它也质疑关于竞争的好处的某些假设。