The European Commission is expected to ask the Council of Ministers to impose punitive sanctions on five Japanese electronic typewriter manufacturers – three of which assemble their lines in the UK – on the grounds that their European plants do no more than final assembly and test from wholly imported subassemblies: the five are Sharp Corp, in Wrexham; Matsushita Electric Industrial Co in Newport, Gwent; Silver Reed Inc in Birmingham; Canon Inc in Brittany, France; and Tokyo Electric in Brunswick, West Germany.
SANCTIONS ON JAPANESE ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER MANUFACTURERS?
