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Poisoned Partnership: The International Mercury Cartel and Spanish–Italian Relations, 1945–1954

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2021

PABLO DEL HIERRO  and
ESPEN STORLI
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Abstract

This article investigates the development of the Spanish–Italian mercury cartel from the end of World War II to the mid-1950s. Previous literature has singled out the cartel as one of the most robust international cartels of the twentieth century, but as this article shows, the cartel broke down toward the end of the 1940s, and although briefly reestablished in 1954, it quickly dissolved again. Building on access to original source material from archives in Spain, Italy, the United States, and United Kingdom, we investigate the underlying reasons why the cartel broke down, and how and why it was eventually reestablished. Because both the main Italian and the Spanish mercury producers were state-owned, this article pays special attention to the influence of the political relations between Spain and Italy on the development of the cartel. The study of the mercury cartel is used as a prism to investigate the point where industry strategies meet government strategies. This article thus contributes to two major strands of literature, both to the business history literature on international cartels in the post-1945 world and to the diplomatic history literature on the intricate relationship between Spain and Italy in the early phase of the Cold War.

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business-government relationscartelsnatural resources
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 825 - 856
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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Footnotes

We would like to thank the participants at the History and Strategic Raw Materials Initiative Conference at the University of Strathclyde, 2013, for constructive comments on an early version of this article (especially Joel Wolfe, who served as commentator). We also received very helpful feedback when we presented this work in a seminar at the Department of Economic History II at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, in 2016, and in a seminar at the Department of Historical Studies, NTNU, in 2017. Finally, we would like to thank the editor and the anonymous referees of the journal for their valuable input.

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Balfour, Sebastian, and Preston, Paul, eds. Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge, 1999.Google Scholar
Ballini, Pier Luigi, and Varsori, Antonio, eds. L’Italia e l’Europa (1947–1979) . Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2005.Google Scholar
Barone, Mario, and Di Nolfo, Ennio, eds. Giulio Andreotti: l’uomo, il cattolico, lo statista, Rubbettino: Soveria Mannelli, 2010.Google Scholar
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Delgado, Lorenzo. Imperio de papel: acción cultural y política exterior durante el primer franquismo. Madrid: CSIC, 1992.Google Scholar
Del Hierro, Pablo. Spanish–Italian Relations and the Influence of the Major Powers, 1943–1957. London: Palgrave, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Di Nolfo, Ennio, Rainero, Romain H., and Vigezzi, Brunello, eds. L’Italia e la politica di potenza in Europa (1945–50). Milan: Marzorati, 1990.Google Scholar
Di Nolfo, Ennio, and Serra, Maurizio. La gabbia infranta. Gli Alleati e l’Italia dal 1943 al 1945. Rome: Laterza, 2010.Google Scholar
Eckes, Alfred E. The United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals . Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fellman, Susanna, and Shanahan, Martin, eds. Regulating Competition: Cartel Registers in the Twentieth-Century World. London: Routledge, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Garavini, Giuliano. The Rise & Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Hillman, John. The International Tin Cartel. London: Routledge, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Marquina Barrio, Antonio. España en la política de seguridad occidental, 1938–1986. Madrid: Ediciones del Ejército, 1986.Google Scholar
Mammarella, Giuseppe, and Cacace, Paolo, La politica estera dell’Italia. Dallo Stato unitario ai giorni nostri. Rome: Laterza, 2006.Google Scholar
Medici, Lorenzo. Dalla propaganda alla cooperazione. La diplomazia culturale italiana nel secondo dopoguerra (1944–1950) . Padua: CEDAM, 2009.Google Scholar
Muñoz Soro, Javier, and Treglia, Emanuele, eds. Patria, Pan, Amore e Fantasia: La España franquista y sus relaciones con Italia (1945–1975). Madrid: Editorial Comares, 2017.Google Scholar
Palazzo, Daniele. La politica estera di De Gasperi. Dal gennaio 1945 al maggio 1947 . Civitavecchia: Prospettiva Editrice, 2006.Google Scholar
Pennington, James Wilson. Mercury: A Materials Survey . Bureau of Mines, Information Circular 7941. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1959.Google Scholar
Romero, Federico, and Varsori, Antonio, eds. Nazione, interdipendenza, integrazione. Rome: Carocci, 2007.Google Scholar
Roush, Gar A. Strategic Mineral Supplies . New York: McGraw Hill, 1939.Google Scholar
Schmitz, Christopher J. World Non-ferrous Metal Production and Prices, 1700–1976. London: Routledge, 1979.Google Scholar
Segreto, Luciano. Monte Amiata: Il mercurio italiano, strategie internazionali e vincoli extraeconomici . Milan: Franco Angeli, 1991.Google Scholar
Spar, Deborah L. The Cooperative Edge: The International Politics of International Cartels. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
Varsori, Antonio. L’Italia nelle relazioni internazionali dal 1943 al 1992 . Rome: Laterza, 1998.Google Scholar
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Levenstein, Margaret, and Suslow, Valerie. “What Determines Cartel Success?” Journal of Economic Literature, 44, no. 1 (2006): 43–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K., and Pindyck, Robert S.. “Cartel Theory and Cartel Experience in International Minerals Markets.” In Energy: Markets and Regulation, edited by Gordon, Richard L., Jacoby, Henry D., and Zimmerman, Martin B., 187–214. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987.Google Scholar
Marquina Barrio, Antonio. “El Concordato de 1953 entre España y la Santa Sede, cincuenta años después.” UNISCI Discussion Papers, no. 3 (2003): 1–7.Google Scholar
Pardo Sanz, Rosa. “La política exterior del Franquismo: aislamiento y alineación internacional.” In El Franquismo. Visiones y balances, edited by Moreno, Roque and Caler, Francisco Sevillano, 93–118. Alicante: Universidad de Alicante, 1999.Google Scholar
Schröter, Harm G. “Cartels Revisited: An Overview on Fresh Questions, New Methods, and Surprising Results.” Revue Économique, 64, no. 6 (2013): 989–1010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Segreto, Luciano, and Wubs, Ben, “Resistance of the Defeated: German and Italian Big Business and the American Antitrust Policy, 1945–1957.” Enterprise and Society, 15 (2014): 307–336.Google Scholar
Stigler, George J. “A Theory of Oligopoly.” Journal of Political Economy, 72, no. 1 (1964): 44–61.Google Scholar
Suslow, Valerie. “Cartel Contract Duration: Empirical Evidence from Inter-war International Cartels.” Industrial and Corporate Change, 14, no. 5 (2005): 705–744.Google Scholar
Wurm, Clemens A. “Politik und wirtschaft in den internationalen beziehungen. Internationale kartelle, außenpolitik und weltwirtschaftliche beziehungen 1919–1939: einführung.” In International Kartelle und Außenpolitik, edited by Wurm, Clemens A., Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1989: 1–31.Google Scholar
U.S. Tariff Commission. Mercury (Quicksilver) Report to the Congress on Investigation no. 332-32 (Supplemental), Under Section 332 of the Tariff Act of 1930, Made Pursuant to Senate Resolution 206, 87th Congress, Adopted September 23, 1961. Washington, D.C., 1962.Google Scholar
Archivio Istituto Sturzo (AIS) Google Scholar
Archivio del Ministerio degli Affari Esteri (archives of the Italian Foreign Office) (ASMAE) Google Scholar
Political Affairs Section (Affari Politici), Relations between Spain and ItalyGoogle Scholar
General Direction of Economic Affairs Section: Relations between Spain and ItalyGoogle Scholar
Archivo General de la Administracion (AGA)Google Scholar
Records from the Spanish Embassy in Italy, folder: “Mercurio Europeo 1940–1950”Google Scholar
Records of the Spanish Embassy in the United States, folder: “Mercury”Google Scholar
El Archivo Histórico de las Minas de Almadén (the historic archive of the Almadén mines), Real Hospital de Mineros de San Rafael, Almadén, Spain (AHMA)Google Scholar
Archivo del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (Archive of the Spanish Foreign Office): telegrams from Madrid to Rome (AMAe)Google Scholar
Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco (private archive of Franco managed by the Franco Foundation) (FNFF)Google Scholar
Giulio Andreotti Private Archive, Bundle 235/6Google Scholar
National Archives of the United Kingdom Foreign Office, Southern Department, Relations with Spain (NAUK)Google Scholar
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 56, State Department Decimal File: US-Italian relations (SDDF)Google Scholar