The concession comes after the Federal Trade Commission launched an inquiry around June to determine whether Apple had violated antitrust laws with the earlier policy.
In the Board of Trade's post-accident inquiry, Carlisle was very clear as to why White Star declined to install extra lifeboats: The firm wanted to see whether regulators required it.
When BSkyB - under the chairmanship of Rupert Murdoch's son James - bought a 17.9% stake in ITV, the Department of Trade and Industry ordered a full competition inquiry, on advice from the Office of Fair Trading.
The inquiry was sparked when yuan remitted into Hong Kong for trade settlement in October more than doubled from the previous month, boosting yuan on deposit in the city's banks by 45%.