US court overturns ITC finding in Japanese supercomputer dumping case

Littleton, 22 December 98 The Court of International Trade has overturned a finding by the International Trade Commission (ITC) that imports of supercomputers made by NEC and Fujitsu threaten to injure Cray Research. The ITC determination, issued in October 1997, led to the imposition of high antidumping duties on Japanese supercomputers. Those duties may be lifted as a result of the Court's, which means Japanese supercomputers could be exported again to Japan in the future.

Judge Donald C. Pogue found that the ITC had failed to show a causal connection between the small number of Japanese supercomputers sold in the U.S. and the deteriorating performance of Cray. The Judge remanded the case to the ITC for reconsideration of its threat of injury finding.

The ITC has 90 days to reconsider its prior finding of threat of injury. If it finds that imports do not threaten injury, the antidumping order will be lifted.

The anti dumping measures have virtually banned Japanese supercomputers from the USA. When the ban is lifted, one can expect that especially wheather forecast institutes, automotive and aerospace companies will consider buying these type of vector computers.

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