Judgment_paragraph 40 · Nashua Corporation and others v Commission and Council of the European Communities (C-133/87, C-150/87)

40According to Nashua, the Council infringed the principle prohibiting discrimination by applying antidumping duties at a standard rate to all imports of plain paper photocopiers. It claims that it pays, in absolute terms, a far higher antidumping duty than a related subsidiary of a Japanese manufacturer, since its gross profit margin is only 16% whereas the margin achieved by the related subsidiaries of Japanese manufacturers amounts to 42%.