The competition authorities of the UK, USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand have established a working group in order to better address concerns that some companies are using the supply chain shortages as a cover to raise prices pursuant to anticompetitive activity, such as cartels.
In-house counsel could use this news as a prompt for their compliance programmes to check that if their company is planning to raise its prices, that this is a unilateral decision and not one that might be co-ordinated with competitors.
If competitors are announcing price rises, this could be a red flag.
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