The Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce adopts its first cartel decision under the Anti-Monopoly Law in the concrete production sector (Concrete Committee cartel)

It has been reported [1] that last January, a local branch of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce («SAIC») [2], used, for the first time, its enforcement powers under China's Anti-Monopoly Law («AML») to fine a trade association and some of its members for having implemented various market sharing, customer allocation and output restrictions arrangements in the ready-mixed concrete market in China's Jiangsu province near Shanghai. I. Facts In April 2009, Lianyungang city Administration for Industry and Commerce («Lianyungang AIC») received complaints about ready-mixed concrete shortages from various building companies active in the Jiangsu Province. These shortages had forced the building companies to halt several important construction projects in the area and caused