FTC Seeks Comment On Draft Of 2022-2026 Strategic Plan

The FTC requested comment on the preliminary draft of the agency's Strategic Plan for fiscal years' 2022 to 2026.

In its draft, the FTC outlined the following strategic goals:

• Encouraging an "open and competitive marketplace for the benefit of the public," including:
• • deterring anti-competitive practices;
  • undertaking research and advocacy efforts to enhance public awareness of the benefits of fair competition;
  • engaging with domestic and international partners to ensure unfair competition is checked; and
  • "advanc[ing] racial equity, and all forms of equity, and support underserved and marginalized communities through the FTC's competition mission" through (i) a focus on illegal activities and mergers and acquisitions that negatively affect "underserved and marginalized communities" and (ii) additional research on the effect of anticompetitive conduct on such communities, including monetizing the amount of any harm, the percentage of such populations