South Africa’s Competition Commission has referred a suspected cartel in the steel pilings market to the country’s Competition Tribunal. It has also announced a settlement with steel company Aveng on separate cartel charges in the supply of wire mesh and reinforcing bars.

A merger between two of Japan’s largest steel companies could be weighed on its impact on the international market, says a top competition official.

Spain’s National Competition Commission (CNC) has opened a formal case against two of the country’s steel associations suspected of fixing prices and setting conditions for their members.

Members of South Africa’s Competition Commission will be among experts giving evidence about steel company ArcelorMittal’s pricing practices before the country’s National Assembly.

A Federal Court in Brazil has upheld an 11-year-old antitrust ruling by the country’s Council for Economic Defence (CADE) that fined a group of steelmakers for engaging in cartel activity.

Paris’s Court of Appeal has significantly reduced the record cartel fines levied on 11 steel companies in December 2008.