price fixing

price fixing
n.
Conspiring with other individuals or companies in the same business to set prices instead of letting them be set by market forces, usually to restrict competition.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


price fixing
A criminal violation of federal antitrust statutes, in which several competing businesses agree to set prices for their products to prevent real competition and keep the public from benefiting from price competition. (See also: antitrust laws)
Category: Business, LLCs & Corporations
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Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.

price fixing
This is strictly prohibited under competition law and includes any formal or informal understanding about price levels or increases between competitors. Unlawful price fixing includes setting minimum or target prices, co-ordination of the timing of price increases and agreeing many aspects of trading conditions such as discounts, margins, rebates, credit terms, advance payments, minimum prices and list prices.

Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. . 2010.


price fixing
n. Artificially setting prices at a certain level, in exception to the workings of a free market, or conspiring to do same. The test is whether such actions or agreements restrain free traders' ability to sell according to those traders' judgment.
@ horizontal price fixing
Price fixing by competitors on the same level, such as all supermarkets selling cereal for the same price.
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@ vertical price fixing
Price fixing between or among parties at different levels of distribution, such as manufacturers and distributors trying to control retail price.
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Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

price fixing
n.
   a criminal violation of federal antitrust statutes in which several competing businesses reach a secret agreement (conspiracy) to set prices for their products to prevent real competition and keep the public from benefitting from price competition. Price fixing also includes secret setting of favorable prices between suppliers and favored manufacturers or distributors to beat the competition.

Law dictionary. . 2013.

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