364It follows from the foregoing that the Commission has not established to a sufficient degree of probability that, following the merger, the merged entity would have extended to the markets for avionics and non-avionics products the practices found by the Commission on the market for large commercial jet aircraft engines, by which the applicant exploited the financial strength of the GE group attributable to GE Capital and the commercial lever represented by GECAS's aircraft purchases in order to promote sales of its products. In any event, the Commission has not adequately established that those practices, assuming that they had been put into effect, would have been likely to create dominant positions on the various avionics and non-avionics markets concerned. Consequently, the Commission made a manifest error of assessment in holding that the financial strength and vertical integration of the merged entity would bring about the creation or strengthening of dominant positions on the markets for avionics or non-avionics products.
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