| In Ron's view subsidies should be accompanied by price fixing of the product being subsidised. |
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| There is, however, a way to replicate that success while acting against price fixing. |
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| Unfair price fixing and unilateral policies cause financial hardships for members of the underclasses wishing to consume the product. |
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| One industry source claimed that price fixing and the operation of cartels was widespread in the business. |
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| Still, the bugaboos of data transparency and price fixing concern regulators. |
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| In the last 10 years, we have uncovered many cartels, many secret price fixing agreements. |
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| The company has been investigated for price fixing and criticised for funding luxurious jollies for journalists. |
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| Overt price fixing is therefore a more likely outcome than tacit forms of cooperation in the absence of a long period of business interaction. |
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| All of which tends to demonstrate that transparent price fixing has had a positive impact on final investor demand for strips. |
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| Inflation recently forced the government to tighten its control over price fixing. |
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| The auction method that allowed price fixing will cease as soon as the new agreement comes into effect. |
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| A Novartis subsidiary is a defendant in a separate state court action involving allegations of price fixing. |
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| A court might conclude that everyone present during the conversation, whether they said anything or not, were engaged in a price fixing scheme. |
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| Consumers are outraged and believe strongly that they are again the victims of price gouging at the pumps and price fixing by the oil companies. |
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| Radio announcements of prices reduce the villagers' vulnerability to price fixing and to price gouging by traders. |
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| A government sponsored price fixing cartel I guess is what he called supply management. |
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| On this matter, one could study the creation of an independent organization in charge of price fixing 2, so that such stabilizing mechanism is compatible with fair-trading directives enacted by Brussels. |
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| As soon as there is a slight surplus offer, the producer ends up in a situation of inferiority in terms of price fixing, because his expenses put him in the position of seller. |
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| Assign responsibility to the Ministry of Trade and Industry for monitoring fluctuations in the price of food and for applying safeguards to deter price fixing. |
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| The suit accuses the firm of price fixing. |
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| General Motors called the price fixing among suppliers unacceptable. |
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| Common examples are price fixing and bid rigging. |
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| The Federal Trade Commission will investigate price fixing. |
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| Such activity constitutes price fixing, the complaint asserts, a felony. |
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| Today one cannot contest the fact that mainly Mr Parker, but also the people at Wine Spectator, can do or undo the reputation and the price fixing of most Bordeaux estates, especially during the Spring pre-tasting season. |
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| Regulators in the United States, the European Union and Australia have been pursuing airlines over alleged air cargo price fixing. |
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| Justice Department has been investigating allegations of auto parts price fixing. |
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| It identified 11 examples of corrupt practices, running the gamut from price fixing and bid rigging to duplicate contract payments and false invoicing. |
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| There were some attempts at price fixing between the processors. |
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| When you start a sales price calculation for those articles and organizational levels for which price fixing has been defined, entries are made in the sales price calculation log for these pricing items. |
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| We know there is price gouging and price fixing going on. |
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| As discussed above, the question of indispensability is especially important for those agreements involving price fixing or the allocation of markets. |
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| Nandi Mokoena, Competition Commission manager, confirmed to Feedinfo News Service that allegations of price fixing are taking place. |
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| Theoretically, futures markets are enabling the whole agricultural community to rise to the challenge of mastering volatility by independently managing the flow of goods and price fixing. |
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| Earlier this summer, regulators opened an antimonopoly investigation of five foreign makers of infant milk formula, accusing them of price fixing. |
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| At the time, up to forty per cent of goods sold in Britain were subject to such price fixing, to the detriment of competition and to the disadvantage of the consumer. |
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| Trade restraints such as price fixing and monopolization tend to promote inefficiency and increase profit for the perpetrators, at the expense of consumer welfare. |
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| Critics of the free market have argued that, in real world situations, it has proven to be susceptible to the development of price fixing monopolies. |
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| In June 2006, US and UK competition authorities investigated alleged price fixing between Virgin Atlantic and British Airways over passenger fuel surcharges. |
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| Credit card service providers, Visa, Inc and MasterCard have reached an agreement with merchants to settle charges of price fixing while setting interchange fees. |
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