Report on Ethanol Market Concentration, 2014.

摘要

This Report presents the Federal Trade Commissions (Commission or FTC) concentration analysis of the ethanol production industry for 2014. Section 1501(a)(2) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires the FTC each year to perform a market concentration analysis of the ethanol production industry using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index to determine whether there is sufficient competition among industry participants to avoid price-setting and other anticompetitive behavior. The statute also requires the FTC to consider all marketing arrangements among industry participants in preparing its analysis. The FTC must report its findings to Congress and to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by December 1.