# Barbados Competition Policy Systems Evidence Brief

**Economy:** BRB / Barbados  
**Evidence status:** Enforcement activity evidence only  
**Source review through:** 2026-07-24  
**Focus year:** 2024

## Focused Reading

| Source lane | Measure | Period | Value | Descriptive position |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OECD Product Market Regulation | Overall Product Market Regulation | No PMR packet | Not published | Not ranked |
| OECD Competition Trends | Merger decisions | 2024 | 0 | activity rank 56 of 56 |

The two rows above remain separate descriptive coordinate systems. They are not combined into a score.

## Product Market Regulation Snapshot

No current Product Market Regulation packet is published for this economy.

| PMR measure | Current value | Recalculated 2018 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Overall Product Market Regulation | Not published | Not published |
| Distortions induced by state involvement | Not published | Not published |
| Barriers to domestic and foreign entry | Not published | Not published |
| Distortions induced by public ownership | Not published | Not published |
| Involvement in business operations | Not published | Not published |
| Regulations impact evaluation | Not published | Not published |
| Administrative and regulatory burden | Not published | Not published |
| Barriers in service and network sectors | Not published | Not published |
| Barriers to trade and investment | Not published | Not published |

## 2024 Merger-Control Activity Snapshot

Region: Americas. Values are published activity counts, not effectiveness measures.

| Activity measure | 2024 |
| --- | --- |
| Merger notifications | 0 |
| Merger decisions | 0 |
| Phase One clearances without remedies | 0 |
| Phase One clearances with remedies | 0 |
| Phase Two clearances without remedies | 0 |
| Phase Two clearances with remedies | 0 |
| Merger prohibitions or challenges | 0 |
| Withdrawn merger notifications | 0 |

## Merger decisions Timeline

| Year | Decisions |
| --- | --- |
| 2015 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2017 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 |

## Interpretation Boundary

This bridge aligns OECD Product Market Regulation economy codes with OECD Competition Trends economy-jurisdiction codes for navigation across two separate releases. PMR values describe encoded regulatory frameworks on a 0-6 scale at economy-specific reference dates. Competition Trends values count reported merger-control activity in 2015-2024. Positions, ranks, gaps, changes, and co-movement do not measure market concentration, enforcement quality, deterrence, welfare, institutional effectiveness, legal correctness, or causation.

Economies join only when the two OECD releases publish the same exact economy code and name. No fuzzy name matching, imputation, forward filling, or composite score is used. Forty-seven economies join across both releases; PMR-only and enforcement-only economies remain visible as one-sided evidence records. EU and COMESA are retained separately as regional authorities and are not treated as economies in the bridge.

## Source Custody

- [A Decade of OECD Competition Trends, Data and Insights](https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2025/12/a-decade-of-oecd-competition-trends-data-and-insights_8aabb981/full-report.html) - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; 2015-2024; reviewed 2026-07-24.

## Continue the Inquiry

- [Combined dossier](https://antitrustradar.org/economy/competition-policy/brb?pmrMetric=pmr&enforcementMetric=merger-decisions&year=2024&view=plane)
- [Enforcement profile](https://antitrustradar.org/enforcement/global/brb?metric=merger-decisions&year=2024&view=ranking)
- [Filtered JSON](https://antitrustradar.org/api/public/competition-policy-systems?economy=BRB&year=2024)
- [Filtered CSV](https://antitrustradar.org/api/public/competition-policy-systems?economy=BRB&year=2024&format=csv)