文档介绍：Kristoffer Strandqvist SCORE
The Swedish Pipe- and Tube Market – Attempts anize and Resistance.
Studying the Pipe- and Tube Wholesalers over the legislation process leading to the petition Act of 1953.
Abstract
The Swedish Pipe- and Sanitation market traces its origins to the late 19 century, supplying material to the emerging gas- and water systems in Swedish towns and cities. A cartel was formed in 1909 between the wholesalers. In 1924 the cartel had pricing agreements added and gradually during the interwar years the Swedish Pipe- and Tube Wholesalers cartels evolved and became into several. The 1930s was a jumpy period with the depression but during the war the government crisis planning agencies managed the Pipe and Tube Cartels into form new ones for different products to act as import cartels with responsibilities of official character.
At the end of the war a discussion was started in Sweden about the importance petition for the market and for its functioning, inspired by the American perceptions of trusts and cartels. In 1946 legislation about cartel monitoring was enacted in Sweden, based on the results of a 1930s investigation. But it didn´t stop there. In the summer of 1946 the Minister merce appointed mittee that would examine "inappropriate methods petition, such as boycotts, exclusive contract, and price differentiation”, and the need to eliminate private control over entry into the business sectors. Reform of Swedish markets was in the air. mittee would work for over five long years.
The Pipe- and Tube Wholesalers cartels wondered in what direction this would end, and felt some concerns about a too close scrutiny and possible special interventions into their trade. They therefore acted proactively and shut down the cartels with their price collaborations already in 1947. Instead they started a trade association.
The article follows and analyses this development from historical sources and tries to give a picture of what really happened wit