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As the U.S. government retreats from weighing in with trading partners in favor of balanced treatment for its digital tech champions, one after the other, major markets are turning to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) as inspiration for revamping their antitrust regimes. The DMA is an ex ante framework that regulates large tech players by laying out a set of blanket rules for all designated firms and imposing harsh penalties on violators. Now, Brazil, the world’s 11th largest economy, is joining a growing list of nations in formulating DMA-like ex ante legislation to regulate digital competition. As seen in the case of Turkey, however, Brazil’s take on the DMA could expand the authority of the country’s digital regulator even beyond the scope of the model EU legislation.