Price-fixing Around the World

Hey Canadians, did you ever notice any weird changes in the price of your chocolate in the last few years? Quartz has a collection of some of the price-fixing scandals that have occurred lately, including Hershey Canada pleading guilty to fixing the price of chocolate confectionary products last year; nine Japanese companies that were involved in “a dozen separate conspiracies aimed at the U.S. economy” by price-fixing auto parts; Japanese and European suppliers price-fixing land cables in Australia.

Photo: John Loo

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