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by goutham2688 3075 days ago
Is there similar laws in US as well? if they have done this in EU it might have happened in US too.
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I'd be very surprised to see such a fine in the US.
The US used to have fairly strong antitrust enforcement.

Here is an excerpt from [0].

"To get a flavor of how thoroughly the federal government managed competition throughout the economy in the 1960s, consider the case of Brown Shoe Co., Inc. v. United States, in which the Supreme Court blocked a merger that would have given a single distributor a mere 2 percent share of the national shoe market."

[0] http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and-...