TaiwanFair Trade Act, general clause against deceptive or unfair competitive conduct
Fair Trade Act (公平交易法), Arts. 6, 25, 42
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In force.
An unfair competition rule binding private bodies.
As of 22 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not engage in deceptive conduct, or conduct that is obviously unfair and capable of affecting trading order, toward a competitor; Article 25 is a residual clause the Fair Trade Commission can apply to a novel unfair-competition claim, including one framed around reuse of a competitor's content or data, that no more specific provision of the Act covers.
If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
Article 42 empowers the Fair Trade Commission to assess an administrative penalty of NT$50,000 to NT$25,000,000 against an enterprise violating Article 25, alongside a cease-and-rectify order; continued non-compliance draws successive penalties.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 22 September 2026
- Currency
- TWD
- Fixed cap
- 25,000,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Fair Trade Commission
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What this law does
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Article 25 is a residual general clause: beyond the Fair Trade Act's other named prohibitions, no enterprise may engage in deceptive conduct, or conduct that is obviously unfair and capable of affecting trading order. The Fair Trade Commission, the Act's named competent authority, may order an enterprise violating Article 25 to cease, rectify, or take corrective action, and may separately impose an administrative penalty of NT$50,000 to NT$25,000,000 (Article 42).
Taiwan has not enacted a dedicated hot-news or database-misappropriation statute; a claim that a competitor's systematic reuse of another's factual reporting or compiled data is unfair has to be brought, if at all, under this general clause rather than under a named misappropriation tort.
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