EU fines Hello Kitty owner $7 million in antitrust ruling

EU is supposed to be one big market - can't restrict goods in only certain countries in the bloc

Good on The EU. Anti-consumer practices should be punished - price fixing may be ok in Japan, but that doesn’t mean they can pull the same crap elsewhere.

$7m? Ms. Kitty probably has that in the cup holder of the limo.

But good for the EU; a business can either sell the goods or not, they have no business trying to restrict whom the goods go to.

No mouth means NO comment...

People could always use a shopping service????

I wonder if the EU launches expensive year long investigations against those selling UN-licensed products in the EU?

Probably not. No big payoff to fund their debt ridden experiment.

EU can do anything they want from poor developing countries but when it comes to big nations like China or Japan, they want to eat €€€€€€€

Sanrio should just laugh and walk away.