Competition panel drops cases against three big companies
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The Commerce Ministry's Trade Competition Committee Monday terminated complaints against three giant companies that had been accused of breaching the Trade Competition Act to the detriment of small traders.
In one of the cases that were dropped, Microsoft had been accused of colluding with its agents to sell cheap software so that its agents won many contract bids. However, the committee decided this was a normal trade practice, and Microsoft had not dumped its price.
Thai Beverage was accused of forcing its agents to buy three dozen bottles of Crystal drinking water for any purchase of one case of Pepsi-Cola.
In the third case, a photographicbusiness group was accused of unfairly importing and selling cheap paper for photo printing.
Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom, who chaired the committee, said it agreed to ter
