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Chinese construction association fined after defense rejected in price-fixing case

By MLex Staff ( March 17, 2026, 07:54 GMT | Insight) -- China’s Shanxi market regulator has fined a provincial construction supervision association $29,000 after rejecting the argument that its industry pricing guidelines were merely advisory, concluding a probe that began in 2021 into rules found to constitute price fixing.A Chinese construction supervision industry association has failed to persuade regulators that its pricing guidelines were merely advisory, with the antitrust regulator in Shanxi province concluding they amounted to a price-fixing arrangement....

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