Decisions of Administrative or Quasi-judicial Agencies -Concerted Actions-2001

1. Primary furniture exhibitors at the Taipei World Trade Center and the furniture industry associations of Kaohsiung City and County interfered with and restrained furniture-selling methods of individual enterprises by organizational manipulation and impaired market competition in violation of prohibition against concerted action in Article 14 of the Fair Trade Law
2. The Taiwan Panchiao District Court requested for a determination of whether the external appearance of the "Hello Kitty" styling and changeable doll products are "symbols" as referred to in Article 20 of the Fair Trade Law; whether the styling of the "Hat Family Baby Bear" product is identical or similar; and whether manufacture, importation, and sale of those products falls under Article 24 of the same law 06/24/02
3. Twenty-seven cylindered Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) distributors in southern Taiwan engaging in concerted action to raise fees for delivery and filling services and to raise the price of cylindered LPG in violation of the Fair Trade Law
4. Taipei County Footwear Manufacturers Association and the Tainan Leather Goods Manufacturers Association improperly deprived member enterprises of the right to participate in footwear exhibitions organized by the two associations, thus violating the Fair Trade Law (The decision has been revoked)
5. Nine upstream gravel companies along the Chuoshui River in Nantou County accused of violating the Fair Trade Law through concerted action in raising gravel prices
6. Alleged manipulation and monopolization of the corn market in violation of the Fair Trade Law regarding a marked rise in corn prices prior to the Lunar New Year
7. Application by the Hualie n County Gravel Company, who was formed by gravel businesses in the Hualien River quarry area, for exemption approval of their concerted action in the form of joint gravel excavation
8. Multi-level sales organization Shining Minoca Co., Ltd. failed to report to the Fair Trade Commission for recordation when changing the content of its registered information, in violation of the Fair Trade Law
9. The Hualien County Liquid Fuel Trade Association was complained for alleged violation of the Fair Trade Law by uniformly fixing the unit retail price of natural gas cylinders among Hualien gas vendors
10. China Airlines, Eva Airways, and Vietnam-based Vietnam Airlines and Pacific Airlines were alleged of acting in concert to raise passenger airfares on Chinese Taipei-Vietnam routes in violation of Fair Trade Law
11. Shun Sheng Construction Co., Ltd. and 20 other enterprises boycott Taipei Water Department and the construction tender of its construction corps in violation of the Fair Trade Law
12. The Chiayi City Trade Association of Eyewear and Timepiece Dealers demanded that all local eyewear dealers cooperate in a price cartel, in violation of the Fair Trade Law

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