Antitrust
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MARKET CONDITIONS in the U.S.: It would seem highly unlikely that this information alone would be sufficient to bring an antitrust action. Prudent and even gutsy or aggressive business people might well seek such information to generate a competitive advantage with little intention toward manipulating the market (Fried Frank, 2002). Even if it does lean toward some expected restraint of trade (Sherman Act), what is occurring at this point clearly passes the reasonableness test. Talking of such issues is not collusive price fixing and suggests no conscious parallelism, for example, which might indicate that their association is for inappropriate purposes (pg. 468).
DETAILS of INDIVIDUAL SALES: In this instance the burden of predatory intent would still be high, since it would be necessary to establish that the company's actions materially hurt the market as a whole and that they were involved in some degree of influential manipulative pricing. In Matsushita, the highest court found little evidence of this with substantially more of a record for review. Were there "category captains" or some such known entity that manipulated the distribution of automobiles to distributors, the case might be closer to allowing for some level of concern, but what is provided would likely still come up short in deference to good business practices.
AVERAGE COSTS: Average costs and related general information is not...
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