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苹果被指控将iPhone在韩国的销售成本转嫁出去，而法律代表则回应说，这是一种正常的市场行为。_我的网站

A | 北京时间1月14日，苹果韩国法定代表人今天表示，韩国最高反垄断机构不应干预苹果与当地移动运营商之间的商业交易，而应遵守市场规则。    White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre flat out refused to answer questions about the Hunter Biden laptop after being asked to comment on recent reporting featuring a voicemail from Joe Biden to his son discussing overseas business despite assurances by the president that he’d never spoken to his son about this subject.,“Well, first, I’ll say that what the president said stands. So if he – if that’s what the president said [that he never talked to Hunter about business], that is what stands,” the spokeswoman said in a press conference Tuesday.,Pressed for an answer, and asked whether she was disputing that it was the senior Biden’s voice in the recording, Jean-Pierre stressed that she was “not going to talk about alleged materials on a laptop. It’s not happening.”,The spokeswoman recommended that the reporter instead address his question to Hunter Biden’s representative.,A second reporter grilled Jean-Pierre over the non-answer, pointing to the disconnect between Joe Biden’s promises to ‘always level with’ the American people, and the White House’s refusal to discuss the laptop.,“I hear your question, but what I can tell you from here, standing at this podium, is that I cannot comment on any materials from the laptop,” Jean-Pierre reiterated.,Last week, the Daily Mail released what it said was a 2018 voicemail from the elder Biden to his son discussing a New York Times story about Hunter’s alleged shady business dealings with a Chinese energy tycoon and CEFC Energy, a now defunct Chinese energy company, in 2017.,'I Think You're Clear': Joe Biden Voicemail Hints He Knew of Hunter’s Chinese Deals, Report Claims28 June, 07:43 GMT,“Hey pal, it’s dad. It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance just give me a call. Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you,” the voice, believed to be Joe Biden’s said in the message. “I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good. I think you’re clear. And anyway if you get a chance give me a call, I love you,” he added.,Hunter offered no comment for the NYT article, while James Biden, the financier brother of Joe Biden, said he believed the Chinese businessman’s call was meant for Hunter.,“There is nothing else I have to say. I don’t want to be dragged into this anymore,” James Biden said.,The voicemail stands in stark contrast to Joe Biden’s statement, made on the campaign trail in 2020, that he had “never spoken to [his] son about his overseas business dealings.” The president’s officials have repeated the talking point ad nauseam in the months and years since.,The voicemail adds to previously reported-on evidence of possible involvement by the president in his son’s business activities. In October 2020, the New York Post published excerpts from an email exchange between Hunter Biden associates James Gilliar and Tony Bobulinski discussing an unspecified business deal with a Chinese firm including a 20 percent cut to “H” and 10 percent for “the big guy.” Speaking to Fox News shortly after the article’s publication, Bobulinski said that the “big guy” referred to in the emails was Joe Biden. Biden’s handlers denied this to be the case, aware of the implication that an admission to that effect could lead to a criminal investigation into their boss on graft charges.,The New York Post’s reporting was dismissed by other news outlets at the time, and censored on Twitter and Facebook as potential “Russian disinformation” aimed at tilting the election against Biden. It wasn’t until earlier this year that the New York Times and the Washington Post carried out their own “forensic investigations” of the laptop, confirming its authenticity.,The computer, left behind by the powerful politician’s son at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019, was eventually handed over to former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani after the shop’s owner first tried to give it to the FBI but found the agency uninterested in its contents.,The ‘laptop from hell’ contains thousands of emails, text messages from Hunter’s iPhone, photos and videos showing in great detail information about his personal life, including an affinity for crack cocaine and high-priced hookers, but more importantly, possible criminal activity implicating both himself and his father.,Paradoxically, the only person to date to have faced any consequences investigating Hunter and Joe Biden’s alleged ‘pay-to-play’ schemes was Donald Trump. In early 2020, Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress charges over a phone call he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019 asking Zelensky to reopen an investigation into Hunter’s business with a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma. Biden publicly boasted in 2018 about how he threatened to withhold a $1 billion loan to Ukraine unless it fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma’s dealings and his son amid suspicions of money laundering. After the prosecutor was dismissed, the investigation was dropped. The Senate acquitted Trump.。苹果在汉城BKL律师事务所的法定代表人兼合伙人Ok Keum Seok表示：“苹果与韩国电信（SKT、KT和LG Uplus）之间的商业交易已经谈判了很长时间，是市场机制下的合法交易。韩国公平贸易委员会（FTC）不应在这方面浪费资源。如果苹果面临联邦贸易委员会的处罚，它将为外国公司在韩国做生意树立一个坏的先例。这项宣布是在联邦贸易委员会即将举行第二次协商会议的时候发布的。在周三的磋商中，苹果将为联邦贸易委员会的指控辩护。FTC怀疑苹果韩国不公平地将iPhone销售给当地移动运营商的成本，包括广告成本、会议成本和维护成本。

B | 联邦贸易委员会在2016年和2017年对苹果韩国办事处进行了两次突击检查，并在去年4月向苹果发送了一份审查报告，要求苹果解释其不公平行为。”苹果和电信之间的所有业务都是基于十多年前苹果进入韩国市场时签订的合同。当时，苹果无法签署有利于苹果的合同，因为当地的手机市场被韩国公司占据了主导地位。苹果的iPhone于2008年首次通过本土运营商KT进入韩国市场。随后，韩国运营商skt和lg uplus在2011年和2014年与苹果签订了销售合同。苹果表示，自那以后，合同条款没有改变，但随着iPhone在韩国市场份额的增加，苹果的广告成本也随之增加。Oh Keum Seok声称，由于合同保密，具体金额无法披露。联邦贸易委员会主席金桑乔（Kim Sang-jo）表示，他将在第二次协商会议上从经济角度审视苹果的问题。

C | 联邦贸易委员会和苹果都将邀请经济学教授参加。

D | 第三次和最后一次协商会议将在下个月底举行，届时将作出罚款决定。如果苹果被判有罪，该公司将面临高达其销售额2%的罚款。

E | 除罚款外，联邦贸易委员会还可能要求苹果对交易条款进行修改。

F | 苹果担心这将在全球市场上树立先例，并产生更大的影响。联邦贸易委员会没有置评。

G | 2013年，苹果因控制iPhone的成本而被台湾罚款7亿韩元（62万美元）。

H | 去年，苹果因对法国运营商采取不公平措施而被罚款640亿韩元。

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