EU probes Anheuser-Busch InBev

The European Union today launched a formal antitrust probe into Anheuser-Busch InBev NV's practices in the Belgian beer market.

The European Commission will seek to determine whether the company restricted import of its beer from less expensive markets in neighboring countries, such as the Netherlands and France.

"We want to make sure that there are no anticompetitive obstacles to trade in beer within the European single market," said EU Antitrust Chief Margrethe Vestager. "Keeping out cheaper imports of its beer from neighboring countries would be both against the interests of consumers and anticompetitive."

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