73Thus, even if Corus had succeeded in showing that the conclusion of the three supply contracts with Vallourec, Dalmine and Mannesmann was objectively consonant with its commercial interests, that fact would not in any way undermine the Commission's thesis that those agreements were illegal. Indeed, anticompetitive practices are very often in the individual commercial interests of undertakings, at least in the short term.
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