Dow, Dupont Win U.S. Antitrust Nod to Create Chemicals Giant

Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. won U.S. antitrust approval for their $73 billion merger, overcoming one of the last remaining hurdles to a deal that would create a global chemicals giant.

The companies said the assets they agreed to sell to win U.S. approval didn’t go beyond what they had already agreed to with other jurisdictions. DuPont will sell off some of its herbicide and insecticide products and Dow will unload a plastics packaging unit, according to a settlement filed June 15 in federal court in Washington.

The so-called merger of equals is among a trio of mega-deals that ...