En decembre 1984, a la fin de son enquete preliminaire, la Commission, apres avoir constate que les entreprises japonaise pratiquaient le dumping et que cette pratique causait un prejudice a l'industrie europeenne, a impose des droits anti-dumping provisoires allant de 6,9 % a 43,7 % sur les importations de machines a ecrire japonaises.
In December 1984, at the end of its preliminary investigation, the Commission, having established that the Japanese firms were dumping and that this was causing injury to the European industry, imposed provisional anti-dumping duties ranging from 6.9% to 43.7% on imports of Japanese typewriters.