Company
BASF SE
Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity
- AGR-5.10: Two seed companies accounted for 72 percent of planted U.S. corn acres and 66 percent of soybean acres in 2018-20. USDA's 2023 seed competition report counts Bayer, Corteva, ChemChina and BASF as owning 95 percent of corn, 84 percent of soybean and 74 percent of cotton plant intellectual property.
- AGR-5.11: In 2017 and 2018 antitrust agencies cleared ChemChina-Syngenta, Dow-DuPont and Bayer-Monsanto only with divestitures. DOJ called the roughly $9 billion Bayer divestiture to BASF the largest merger divestiture ever required by the United States.
- AGR-5.12: No retrospective study of the Bayer-Monsanto divestiture's effect on competition has been located.
Exhibits naming this entity
- Exhibit 632 March 2023. USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (with USPTO), report under Executive Order 14036: More and Better Choices for Farmers: Promoting Fair Competition and Innovation in Seeds and Other Agricultural Inputs
- Exhibit 634 29 May 2018. DOJ Antitrust Division: Justice Department Secures Largest Merger Divestiture Ever to Preserve Competition Threatened by Bayer's Acquisition of Monsanto (Press Release 18-698)
- Exhibit 635 4 February 2019. DOJ Antitrust Division: United States v. Bayer AG et al.; Response to Public Comments (84 FR 1493)