$170,000 fine levied over imported watches.

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Title: $170,000 fine levied over imported watches.
Authors: Nicolaas van Rijn TORONTO STAR
Source: Toronto Star (Canada). 11/05/1990.
Abstract: A scheme to import Asian watches outside normal distribution channels has cost a Toronto distributor and his company $170,000 in fines for misleading advertising. Judge John Kerr of the Ontario Court, provincial division, fined John Bell $20,000 and Tormont Global Time Corp. $150,000 after each pleaded guilty in court last week to one count of misleading advertising under the federal Competition Act. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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Abstract:A scheme to import Asian watches outside normal distribution channels has cost a Toronto distributor and his company $170,000 in fines for misleading advertising. Judge John Kerr of the Ontario Court, provincial division, fined John Bell $20,000 and Tormont Global Time Corp. $150,000 after each pleaded guilty in court last week to one count of misleading advertising under the federal Competition Act. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]