Flender/Flender Gear Units/Helical gear reducers H3
earing and parts declined from 7 percent in 1 to 6 percent in 1. Sales of domestically produced open gearing

and flexible couplings, together, increased from $1.0 million in 1 to $2.3 million in 1. Distributors' sales of imported gearing

and parts, including ..-assembled foreign gear- ing and parts, increased 1percent from $2.4 million in 1 to $6.5 million in

1 (table -. Enclosed gearing and parts also dominated distributor sales of imports, accounting for approximately 9 percent of distributors'

import sales during 1-8. Japan, the United King- dom, West Germany, Italy, and Taiwan were the principal sources of imported gears Compa- nies such as Sumitomo, SEW-Eurodrive, Renold, David Brown, Leroy-Somer, Nord, and Graham-Shimpo were the sources most frequently mentioned by distributors. Many of these foreign gear manufacturers employed domestic distributors as their means of entering the .. gear market After taking title to the goods, distributors generally provide an experienced sales force and the producer furnishes an established line of gears and gear products. The distributor is also often obliged to buy and preserve base stock from the manufacturer. 2 ' Data submitted in response to questionnaires of the .. International Trade Commission by .. distribu- tors. 2 SEW-Eurodrive, Inc., posthearing submission, Nov. 1, 1. Table -1 .. distributors: Sales of all products, open gearing, enclosed gearing and parts, and flexible couplings, 1-8 (In thousands of dollars) Latest completed accounting year ending- Sales 1 1 1 1 1 All products 4,9 5,4 5,8 6,4 7,6 Open gearing: ..-produced 4,1 4,8 5,2 6,0 6,6 Imported 3 3 3 3 5 Subtotal 4,1 4,8 5,2 6,0 6,7 Enclosed gearing and parts: ..-produced 4,3 3,0 3,6 3,0 4,5 ..-assembled foreign 2,1 2,5 3,7 4,6 5,2 Imported 2 2 3 6 1,1 Subtotal 4,6 3,8 3,8 4,3 4,0 Total gear sales 5,8 3,7 4,0 4,3 5,7 Flexible couplings: ..-produced 7,9 1,5 1,4 1,1 1,6 ..-assembled foreign 3 2 2 3 5