184In addition, it should be noted that, on the one hand, the marketing of products carried out not directly by the producer, but through selling entities, implies the existence of costs and a profit margin specific to those entities, so that the prices charged by them to independent buyers are generally higher than the prices charged by producers in their direct sales to such buyers and thus cannot be assimilated to those latter prices. On the other hand, it follows from recitals 7 and 92 of the provisional regulation that, in this case, most of the Union sales of the Union industry were made by the sales entities of the two cooperating Union producers, which represent around 96% of the total Union production.