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SUMMARY OF ANTITRUST
ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS
FOR
PUBLIC RELEASE
FOR MONDAY JUNE 21, 1993 THROUGH FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1993
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Department of Justice
Issues Business Review Letter
In a letter from John
W. Clark, Acting Assistant Attorney-General in charge of the Antitrust
Division, to Andrew W. Maron, counsel for the Fishermen's Marketing
Association, Inc. ("FMA"), the Department announced that it declined
to state that it would not challenge under the antitrust laws
the implementation of a proposal, submitted by the FMA, to extend
membership in FMA to Canadian owners and captains of Canadian
trawling vessels that catch seafood in Canadian waters and deliver
that seafood to processors located in the United States. The FMA
is a non-profit corporation organized under the Fishermen's Collective
Marketing Act ("FCMA"). Membership in the FMA is limited to persons
involved in trawl fishing in waters adjacent to the United States'
Pacific Coast. It currently has 600 members operating over 200
vessels. The principal function of the FMA is to negotiate with
processors of trawl-caught seafood for the minimum price per pound
that these processors will pay FMA members for such seafood. Clark
stated that under the FCMA, there is a limited antitrust exemption
available to those fish marketing associations whose members catch
seafood in waters within the United States' jurisdiction, but
would not be available to an association whose members extend
to Canadian fishermen catching seafood within waters subject to
Canadian jurisdiction. According to Clark, "Antitrust exemptions
are construed narrowly. If the FMA extends membership to Canadian
fishermen who catch their seafood in waters subject to Canadian
jurisdiction, it will lose its exemption from the antitrust laws."
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U.S. v. Brothers
Forestry, Inc.
Criminal No.: CR-93-124-FVS (E.D. Wash.)
U.S. v. Contract
Services Corporation Northwest
Criminal No.: CR-93-125-FVS (E.D. Wash.)
Two one-count informations
were filed in U.S. District Court in Spokane, Washington, charging
Brothers Forestry, Inc. (Brothers) and Contract Services Corporation
Northwest (CSCN), both of Twisp, Washington, with conspiring to
defraud, 18 U.S.C. § 371, the United States by impeding,
impairing, obstructing and defeating the lawful function of the
bidding system used by the United States Forestry Service (USFS)
on contracts for timber stand improvement and tree planting services
to be performed on various ranger districts of national forests
located in the Eastern District of Washington and elsewhere. The
informations charged Brothers and CSCN with devising a scheme
to: (1) deceive the USFS into believing that certain forestry
services contractors, using the services of CSCN, were independent
of one another and were determining and submitting their own bids
to the USFS; and (2) circumvent an order debarring an individual
from participating in or bidding on forestry services solicitations.
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Copies of legal filings are
available from the Legal Procedure Unit, Antitrust Division, Room 3233,
Telephone No.: 514-2481.
93-151
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