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South Korea's antitrust regulator on Sunday levied 291.7 billion won ($272 million) in fines against Posco and six other steel companies for price fixing.
The steel companies regularly had meetings to collude with each other on prices for cold-rolled steel, galvanized steel and color steel, the Fair Trade Commission said in a statement. The commission said the collusion occurred in the past several years.
The FTC said it will ask prosecutors to look into the case against a group of six steel companies, including Posco, Hyundai HYSCO and Dongbu Steel Co. .
Posco was slapped with a fine of KRW98.33 billion, the largest of the group. The FTC said the country's top steelmaker joined with others in 2005 to create "zinc surcharge," aimed at passing a surge in zinc prices onto customers.
Posco said they were not involved in price collusion. The company controls more than 60% of the domestic galvanized steel market.
"We will take a legal action to prove we are not guilty," company spokeswoman Han Mi-hyang said.
| Product Model | Inside Diameter | Outside Diameter | Thickness |
| 5206AN NACHI | 30 | 62 | 23.8 |
| 5206N NACHI | 30 | 62 | 23.8 |