Common Contracts

AGREEMENT CONTAINING CONSENT ORDER

September 25th, 2009

• Filed
  September 25th, 2009

The Federal Trade Commission (“Commission”), having initiated an investigation of the proposed acquisition of Morton International, Inc. (“Morton”), from The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”), by K+S Aktiengesellschaft (“K+S”), the parent of International Salt Company LLC (“ISCO”), and it now appearing that K+S and ISCO, hereinafter sometimes referred to as “Proposed Respondents,” are willing to enter into this Agreement Containing Consent Order (“Consent Agreement”), to divest certain assets and providing for other relief;