Exhibit 633

Justice Department Requires Divestiture of Certain Herbicides, Insecticides, and Plastics Businesses in Order to Proceed with Dow-Dupont Merger

Exhibit 633 · Press release

Justice Department Requires Divestiture of Certain Herbicides, Insecticides, and Plastics Businesses in Order to Proceed with Dow-Dupont Merger

will require The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. (DuPont) to divest multiple crop protection and two petrochemical products to proceed with their proposed merger valued at about $130 billion

DOJ, with the Iowa, Mississippi and Montana attorneys general, sued to enjoin the merger and filed a settlement requiring divestiture of DuPont's Finesse and Rynaxypyr crop protection products and two petrochemical products.

Source: DOJ Antitrust Division
Date: 15 June 2017
Quoted from: Paragraph 1
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-divestiture-certain-herbicides-insecticides-and-plastics
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding AGR-5.11: Primary record 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.