India’s antitrust regulator has withdrawn its investigation report into competition law violations by e-commerce giant Walmart’s Flipkart, a document showed, the second move after the report about Apple being recalled in August.
China’s Xiaomi has complained to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that the report – which found Flipkart and several smartphone sellers and players violating competition laws – contains trade secrets. commercial should have been redacted, Reuters reported in September.
According to two sources and an internal CCI document dated October 1 seen by Reuters on Tuesday, the watchdog has asked recipients of the Flipkart report to destroy it and given a commitment to do so to avoid further distribution.
Xiaomi argued that the report contained sales according to its model, which is sensitive information.
The CCI document noted that some data and information had been “inadvertently” included in the report and provided stakeholders with a new report, although it did not specify what changes the report was making. presently.
Xiaomi declined to comment, while CCI and Flipkart did not respond to Reuters’ queries.
In August, the CCI revoked Apple’s antitrust report after the company complained that trade secrets had been disclosed to certain stakeholders.
In a long-running investigation that began in 2020, the CCI found that Flipkart, as well as e-commerce rival Amazon, had preferentially selected sellers and prioritized certain listings, and colluded with other sellers. companies like Xiaomi, Samsung and Vivo to launch exclusive phones in their markets. websites.
However, much of the investigation remains on hold after Vivo and some online sellers of the two e-commerce companies objected to their inclusion in the investigation and received a court order.
