Tag: Price-Fixing
South Korean Regulator Probes Shippers’ Alleged Price-Fixing Of Japan Routes
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission began reviewing possible punitive measures against a number of shippers over their alleged collusion in fixing freight rates for...
South Korea Fines Chicken Producers For Price-Fixing
Poultry meat processors have been fined for collusion in South Korea’s native chicken meat market.
Earlier this month, the Fair Trade Commission imposed fines totaling...
Pakistan Watchdog Raids Freight Companies Over Price-Fixing
The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Wednesday carried out search and inspection of the offices of two undertakings that are suspected of fixing...
Chicken Execs Shoot Back At New Attempt At Price-Fixing Trial
Defense lawyers for five former and current chicken industry executives on Monday mounted new legal challenges against prosecutors who want another shot at a...
DOJ’s Kanter Warns Over Price-Fixing Algorithms & AI
Algorithms and artificial intelligence can facilitate price-fixing and companies that use programmatic tools may need to start training their AI to steer clear of...
Peru Fines Supermarkets For Turkey Price-Fixing
Peru's Commission for the Defense of Free Competition that they had sanctioned Cencosud Retail Perú, Hipermercados Tottus, Makro Supermayorista and Supermercados Peruanos in the...
New Class Action Suit On Milk Price-Fixing Filed In New Mexico
New Mexico dairies and cooperatives are embroiled in a federal class action antitrust lawsuit accusing two dairy cooperatives of “artificially depressing” prices for at...
Smithfield Foods Settles Pork Price-Fixing Suit
Smithfield Foods announced it would pay $83 million to settle a court case that involved direct-purchaser class claims involving multiple companies in the pork...
Judge To Approve $165M Capacitor Antitrust Settlement
A California federal judge was asked on Thursday to approve $165 million in new settlement agreements with the makers of an electronic component to...
Chicken Price-Fixing Suit Ends In Mistrail Again
The US Department of Justice has once again failed to prove price-fixing in the chicken industry. Now, before it tries for a third time,...