The JFTC issued surcharge payment orders to foreign manufactures for the first time in history. In the marine hose international cartel case, the JFTC issued cease and desist orders to foreign manufacturers in the first time; however, the JFTC could not issue surcharge payment orders because foreign manufactures had no marine hose sales in Japan. In this CRT the JFTC found that CRT manufacturers and their Southeast Asian manufacturing subsidiaries or affiliates had participated in price-fixing conspiracy and thereby had substantially restrained competition in the field of CRT sales in Japan.

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