The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (in Portuguese, Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica, often referred to as Cade or CADE) is Brazil's national competition regulator and an agency of the government of Brazil.

[2] On 10 September 1962 CADE was created as an organ of the Ministry of Labor during the government of President João Goulart by its Federal Law No.

CADE's main bodies are the Administrative Court (TADE), the General Superintendence (SG) and the Department of Economic Studies (DEE).

The SG mainly plays the role of instructing the processes in the control of conducts and concentrations and of monitoring the market.

Similar institutions with equivalent functions to those of CADE are the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the United States of America, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in the United Kingdom, the Italian Competition Authority, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) in Australia.