US govt, finds Japanese car part makers guilty of price-fixing

摘要

The US Justice Department has fined Japanese car part makers in its largest criminal antitrust investigation, which has Involved the authorities from Asia to North America to Europe. Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr. said the global price-fixing conspiracies affected over $5 billion in automobile parts sold to US car manufacturers. There were apparently over a dozen separate conspiracies involving more than 30 kinds of parts affected sales to General Motors, Chrysler and Ford, as well as the US subsidiaries of Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan and Subaru.