Deciding that it makes more sense to take a bigger profit on the products than to pay money over in duties, NEC Technology Ltd and Star Micronics Manufacturing Ltd have raised the prices of the printers that they assemble in the UK. As a result, the European Commission is lifting the duties it imposed last month on parts imported from Japan for assembly into the matrix printers. Anti-dumping duties of from 4% to 47% on printers imported into the Community from Japan continue.
