Due to the sanitary emergency caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, the Federal Economic Competition Commission (“COFECE” for its acronym in Spanish), expressing its awareness of its effects on the markets, in order to support that the supply chains are not interrupted, or the artificial restriction of output or price hikes of goods or services, on March 27 and 30 it published two communications.
On April 9th, 2019, was published in the Federal Official Gazette the notice by means of which the investigating authority of the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE by its acronym in Spanish) reports the initiation of an investigation by the possible commission of absolute monopolistic practices in relation to the production, distribution and commercialization of maize flour in Mexican territory.
