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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: redhat on May 02, 2017, 0335 UTC

Title: Capacitor manufacturing companies accused of creating price fixing cartel
Post by: redhat on May 02, 2017, 0335 UTC

May be old news by now, but still interesting.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-companies-agree-plead-guilty-fixing-prices-electrolytic-capacitors (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-companies-agree-plead-guilty-fixing-prices-electrolytic-capacitors)

This may have been triggered by an EU complaint in late 2015

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-04/ten-asian-makers-of-capacitors-get-eu-price-fixing-complaint (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-04/ten-asian-makers-of-capacitors-get-eu-price-fixing-complaint)

+-RH

Title: Re: Capacitor manufacturing companies accused of creating price fixing cartel
Post by: Josh on May 02, 2017, 1622 UTC

Lol, a libor for caps, who knew.