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Federal Trade Commission has launched investigation into price discrimination in soft-drink industry as part of FTC Chair Lina Khan’s effort to reinvigorate use of the Robinson-Patman Act. The Act strengthened the Clayton Act’s limitations on price discrimination.
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation to explore price discrimination in the soft drink industry. A fresh approach to price discrimination would carefully balance what are sometimes the opposing forces of legal propriety and better economic outcomes.