EUROPE: Chemical groups fined EUR243m over rubber cartel
Author: just-style.com | 6 December 2007
Five leading chemical groups have been hit with fines totalling EUR243.21m (US$353.9m) by the European Commission for taking part in a cartel for chloroprene rubber.
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