Anti-price monopoly provisions to the hardware market

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After the New Year holiday in 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission announced the “Anti-monopoly Regulations” on the morning of January 4, prohibiting competing operators from reaching eight price monopoly agreements that fixed or changed prices, which brought fairness to the market. A trace of spring breeze. As far as the hardware market is concerned, anti-price monopoly is a good policy for both companies and individuals.

In recent years, with the expansion of market competition and the deepening of competition, the hardware industry has increasingly violated competition laws, and the means of restricting competition have been continuously refurbished. All forms of price alliances and abuse of monopolistic behavior have seriously damaged consumers. Legitimate rights also endanger the healthy development of the socialist market economy.

In the home improvement industry, whether it is the majority of owners or hardware material distributors have suffered industrial monopoly violations, have had profound experience and deep resentment for the unfair hardware market.

Renovation market prevails in a potential rule: Renovators and community properties “cooperate” to form a dedicated decoration service team. The cement, sand, doors, windows, and hardware required for decoration are all provided by this service team. However, this “one-stop” service did not bring convenience and benefits to the owners. On the contrary, the materials they provided were “not only more expensive than the outside, but also of poor quality!” Moreover, the service team also deprived the owners of their own choices. The rights of the owners, if the owners bought materials themselves, the service team refused to complete the renovation. If the decoration company was found from outside, the property personnel would “exert themselves” and would not allow the personnel to send materials to enter the community, and even more would not hesitate to treat them with violence.

The anti-monopoly regulations introduced this time will formally come into effect on February 1 this year, and the regulations state that operators with market dominance must not sell at unfairly high prices or buy goods at unfairly low prices; For the purpose of selling goods at a price lower than the cost, they may not refuse to deal with the counterparty of the transaction in disguised form by setting a too high sales price or a low purchase price; they may not limit transactions by means of price discounts, etc.; An unreasonable fee is added to the price; no counterparty in the same condition must be treated differently in the transaction price.

We believe that the anti-price monopoly provided by this ban must be able to rely on its strong government “macro” hand and also be fair on the hardware market.