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by ciscoriordan 2911 days ago
The first line of the article is: "Roughly 70 percent of all Chinese fireworks entering the United States come here under the control of a Chinese businessman who has used his influence to raise prices and block competitors, leaving many U.S. executives fearful of losing access to their most important Fourth of July inventories."

The word "monopoly" doesn't appear anywhere in the article. The article's claim is that Mr. Ding is anticompetitive, not that he operates a monopoly.