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Company: Toyo Tanso USA Inc.
Penalty: $4,500,000
Year: 2001
Date: February 14, 2001
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: price-fixing or anti-competitive practices
Violation Description: A U.S. subsidiary of a Japanese manufacturer of isostatic graphite, which is used to make molds and dies, and a Japanese executive agreed to plead guilty and pay fines totaling more than $4.5 million for participating in an international cartel to fix the price of isostatic graphite sold in the United States and elsewhere.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Antitrust Division
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
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