Resale price maintenance is a type of vertical restraint
regulated by the Anti-Monopoly Law, which is set for revision with
clarified guidance this year for the first time since it came into
force in 2008.
CURRENT LEGISLATION
Based on article 14 of the current law and administrative
enforcement and judicial practice, resale price maintenance mainly
refers to conclusion and implementation of agreements between
undertakings and downstream distributors to “fix the prices
for selling commodities to third parties” and “restrict
minimum prices for reselling commodities to third
parties”.
Article 14 specifically prohibits such price fixing and
restricting minimum prices of re-sales.
