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China: Vitamin C fine proves damaging for relations with US

By  |  March 19, 2013

Reports have said that Beijing is speaking out against the US court that recently ordered two Chinese manufacturers of Vitamin C to pay $162 million in damages for price-fixing. The US court is now accused of infringing on Beijing’s sovereignty. A spokesman for China’s Ministry of Commerce spoke out against the US court at a press conference, arguing that the ruling was “unfair and improper” and that the accused companies were simply complying with the Chinese government’s requirements. Last week a federal court in New York ordered that North China Pharmaceutical Group Corp and one of its affiliates to pay the fine after the defendants argued that the “price-fixing cartel” found to have existed by the jury was the result of Chinese government decisions. The fines were trebled by the judge.

 

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