Regarding the tennis racket of the American sports brand "Wilson", the Fair Trade Commission announced that there were cases where distributors and manufacturers in Tokyo put pressure on vendors and hindered the trading of parallel imports.

The agency and manufacturer have submitted a recurrence prevention plan to the Fair Trade Commission.

Wilson's domestic distributor, Amer Sports Japan, located in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, said that it pressured importers not to deal with parallel importers who sell Wilson's tennis rackets cheaply by another route. In September, I was inspected by the Fair Trade Commission on suspicion of violating the Antimonopoly Act.



On this issue, the Fair Trade Commission held a press conference on the 25th, and Amer Sports Japan put pressure through the Wilson Sporting Goods Company, which manufactures products at its parent company in the United States, to trade parallel imports. Announced that there was a case that hindered.



The two companies canceled the problematic behavior and submitted a "commitment plan" that included improvement measures to prevent recurrence, such as conducting regular audits, and the Fair Trade Commission approved this plan on the 25th.



Parallel imports have the effect of encouraging price competition because they import genuine products that are distributed overseas without going through an agency, and the Fair Trade Commission has investigated that this issue hindered proper competition.



Amer Sports Japan commented, "We will surely implement the plan."