ACCC v April International Marketing Services Australia Pty Ltd (No 8)

[2011] FCA 153 (25 February 2011)

Keywords

price fixing - penalties - agreed facts and admissions

Overview

Asia Pulp & Paper Company Ltd (Singapore) and PT Indah Kiat Pulp and Paper Tbk (Indonesia), between 2000 and 2004, arrived at 'arrangements with competitors for the supply to customers in Australia of uncoated woodfree folio and cut-size paper (UWF paper)' containing 'provisions which had the purpose and effect or likely effect of fixing, controlling or maintaining the average price per metric tonne at which they would supply UWF paper to customers in Australia' and gave effect to those provisions' in its pricing for the supply of UWF paper to customers in Australia. This contravened s 45(2)(a)(ii) and s 45(2)(b)(ii) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and the Competition Codes defined in s 150A and 150I of the Act. (see para 1)