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US: FTC issues annual report on ethanol market concentration for 2019

By  |  November 26, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission has issued its 2019 Report on Ethanol Market Concentration. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 directs the Commission to perform an annual review of market concentration in the ethanol production industry “to determine whether there is sufficient competition among industry participants to avoid price-setting and other anticompetitive behavior.”

As in prior years, the 2019 report concludes that “[t]he low level of concentration and large number of market participants in the U.S. ethanol production industry continue to suggest that the exercise of market power to set prices, or coordination on price and output levels, is unlikely.”

The Commission vote to approve the report was 4-0-1. Commissioner Christine S. Wilson did not participate.(The staff contact is Christopher Grengs, Bureau of Competition, 202-326-2612.)

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