{"id":84421,"date":"2021-10-20T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=84421"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:59:12","slug":"antitrust-updates-october-2021-amazon-eu-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/antitrust-updates-october-2021-amazon-eu-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Updates on Antitrust – October 2021 – Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a rundown of last week\u2019s news updates on Antitrust:<\/p>\n

Allegations of Amazon India’s anticompetitive practices sparks demand for US antitrust probe<\/h2>\n

Ecommerce giant Amazon is accused of manipulating search results to boost its own product lines. Thousands of pages of internal Amazon documents show the company ran a systematic campaign. The Confederation of All India Traders, a group representing India’s brick-and-mortar retailers, called for a government investigation of Amazon. An expos\u00e9 by Reuters has shown how the business copied products and manipulated websites in India. Legislators in the US are planning to introduce a bill that would prevent Big Tech platforms from favouring their own products and services over competitors’ offerings.<\/p>\n

EU pulp producers under the threat of an antitrust probe axe<\/h2>\n

Several wood pulp companies in Europe were subjected to inspections by the European Commission. These inspections are an attempt to determine whether wood pulp producers have engaged in criminal activity by engaging in cartel behaviour or anticompetitive practices. The companies targeted hold approximately four per cent of the global pulp market.\u00a0 The intent of the inspection is to find evidence of price co-operation, through e-mails, meeting memos or internal memos.<\/p>\n

Chinese antitrust bureau to be revamped and accorded new status<\/h2>\n

China intends to revamp the antitrust bureau and rename it the National Antimonopoly Bureau, as the country looks to clamp down on monopolistic behaviour, with a special eye on online platforms. The National Antimonopoly Bureau will be accorded a deputy-ministerial status, but would still come under State Administration for Market Regulation. This elevated status is said to assist regulators in obtaining necessary resources for examining mergers and acquisitions.<\/p>\n

Authored by Rohan Joshua Jacob (Associate) and Shabarna Choudhury (Intern).<\/p>\n

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This update reviews key antitrust developments from October 2021, covering actions involving Amazon India, European pulp producers, and China\u2019s regulatory reforms. The analysis offers an objective summary of current investigations and legislative trends in global competition law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3822],"tags":[4859,2228,11476,11474,11473,1278,4546,11475],"class_list":["post-84421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-ip-and-antitrust-competition","tag-amazon-india","tag-antitrust","tag-big-tech","tag-cartel-investigation","tag-china-antitrust","tag-competition-law","tag-european-commission","tag-market-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142287,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84421\/revisions\/142287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}