restraint of competition

Senator Frank H. Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said at a news conference today that newly available information from the Commerce Department indicated that "Japanese companies may be colluding on construction bids in the United States," leading to a "serious restraint of competition."

In this letter Stepanov tried to convince MinAtom that there was no reason for worries, since the production facilities of Atommash were preserved, technological routines for manufacturing of core production were uninterrupted, and the establishment of EMK-Atommash JSC would not lead to restraint of competition.