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The Iron Ore Production Joint Venture Between Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton: The European Angle of a Multinational Antitrust Review

In: Emerging Issues in Sustainable Development

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  • Jean-François Bellis

    (Van Bael & Bellis)

Abstract

In 2009–2010, the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) reviewed the proposed iron ore production joint venture in Western Australia between BHP Billiton (“BHPB”) and Rio Tinto (“Rio”). This transaction was announced in June 2009 but was finally abandoned by the parties in October 2010 due to antitrust concerns. While no formal decision on the proposed BHPB/Rio joint venture has been issued, neither by the European Commission nor the German FCO, this case is nonetheless noteworthy in that It is very rare for European competition authorities to oppose pure production joint ventures, let alone one in which the production takes place entirely outside of the EU and only relatively small amounts of the jointly produced products would likely be sold in the EU.

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  • Jean-François Bellis, 2016. "The Iron Ore Production Joint Venture Between Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton: The European Angle of a Multinational Antitrust Review," Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific, in: Mitsuo Matsushita & Thomas J. Schoenbaum (ed.), Emerging Issues in Sustainable Development, chapter 0, pages 221-243, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eclchp:978-4-431-56426-3_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-56426-3_10
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