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In this paper, the author reports on how the European and American Competition Authorities apprehend margin squeeze viz. the fact for dominant undertakings operating simultaneously as vertically-integrated entities and as downstream market participants to increase wholesale prices by reducing their retail price, thus squeezing their downstream-market competitors out.#This is significant because the address of margin squeeze as distortive of competition differs significantly on either side of the Atlantic while it is a major concern for non-dominant competitive economic operators.#The divergences demonstrated in this article further attest to a fundamental opposition be-tween EU Competition Law and American Antitrust Law which should be of interest to readers in the areas of competition law and economics.