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To: steve who wrote (4901)	11/10/1997 10:19:00 AM
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NEC & Fujitsu news, 11/6/97 12:51 PM EDT NEC challenges U.S. supercomputer tariffs in World Court Japan's NEC Corp. and its U.S. subsidiary HNSX Supercomputers, Inc. yesterday went to the Court of International Trade to appeal a U.S. ruling that imposed heavy tariffs on Japanese supercomputers. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled in September that Japanese vendors NEC and Fujitsu Ltd. have harmed the U.S. vector supercomputer industry by dumping, or selling products below cost, in the U.S. market. Vector supercomputers are used for high-end scientific and mathematical applications such as weather forecasting. The ITC's decision imposed antidumping duties ranging from 173% to 454% of the selling price on vector supercomputers imported into the U.S. by NEC, Fujitsu, and Hitachi Ltd. and others. NEC said today that ITC's determination was based on arbitrarily limiting access to the U.S. supercomputer industry to vector supercomputers produced by Cray at the exclusion of supercomputers made by IBM, Silicon Graphics and others. "In the real world, the notion that U.S. supercomputer makers are currently threatened by imports from Japan is completely implausible," said Samuel Adams, vice president of sales and marketing, at HNSX in Littleton, Mass. in a statement. "The ITC found a threat of injury despite the fact that U.S. producers dominate the market, sales by Japanese firms have been minimal, and Japanese supercomputers are in fact excluded from a significant share of the U.S. market," Adams said. -- Torsten Busse