96-12700. Atlas Supply Company; Prohibited Trade Practices and Affirmative Corrective Actions

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 21, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 25493]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12700]



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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

[Dkt. No. 5794]


Atlas Supply Company; Prohibited Trade Practices and Affirmative 
Corrective Actions

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Set aside order.

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SUMMARY: This order reopens a 1951 consent order--which prohibited 
Atlas from receiving illegal allowances or knowingly accepting or 
inducing discriminatory prices in their purchase of automotive tires, 
tubes, batteries, accessories or other automobile products--and sets 
aside the consent order pursuant to the Commission's Sunset Policy 
Statement, under which the Commission presumes that the public interest 
requires terminating competition orders that are more than 20 years 
old.

DATES: Consent order issued July 19, 1951. Set aside order issued 
August 24, 1995.\1\

    \1\ Copies of the Consent Order and Set Aside Order are 
available from the Commission's Public Reference Branch, H-130, 6th 
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daniel Ducore, FTC/S-2115, Washington, D.C. 20580, [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Matter of Atlas Supply Company. The 
prohibited trade practices and/or corrective actions are removed as 
indicated.

(Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interpret or apply sec. 5, 38 
Stat. 719, as amended; Sec. 2, 49 Stat. 1526; 15 U.S.C. 45, 13)
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-12700 Filed 5-20-96; 8:45 am]
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