FTC’s Tronox lawsuit leans on Third Circuit price-fixing case

Charles McConnell

12 December 2017

Titanium dioxide sample (Credit: wikimedia/Benjah-bmm27)

The Federal Trade Commission’s administrative complaint seeking to block Tronox’s purchase of Cristal’s titanium dioxide business leans on an appellate court’s characterisation of the market for that chemical as an oligopoly.

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Charles McConnell

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