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For the year ended March 31, 2004
Net sales
Outside customers
Intersegment sales
Total
Operating expenses
Operating income (loss)
Assets
Consolidated
$4,791,163
4,791,163
4,756,392
$34,771
$5,738,605
(Eliminations)
or corporate
$(2,472,146)
(2,472,146)
(2,461,506)
$(10,640)
$(66,712)
Total
$4,791,163
2,472,146
7,263,309
7,217,898
$45,411
$5,805,317
Asia
$349,951
178,858
528,809
508,488
$20,321
$313,667
Europe
$1,174,510
5,950
1,180,460
1,172,293
$8,167
$501,841
North
America
$1,406,906
29,533
1,436,439
1,383,355
$53,084
$556,612
Japan
$1,859,796
2,257,805
4,117,601
4,153,762
$(36,161)
$4,433,197
Thousands of U.S. Dollars
(c) Export Sales
For the years ended March 31, 2004 and 2003
Export sales (A)
North America
Europe
Asia
Other Area
Total
Net sales (B)
Thousands of
U.S. Dollars
2004
$1,387,302
1,159,840
915,189
35,673
$3,498,004
$4,791,163
(A)/(B)
33.5%
21.4
16.4
2.8
74.1%
2003
¥157,163
100,577
76,864
12,850
¥347,454
¥468,959
(A)/(B)
29.0%
24.2
19.1
0.7
73.0%
2004
¥146,624
122,583
96,726
3,770
369,703
¥506,378
Millions of Yen, %
Note: “Other Area” consists principally of South and Central America and Oceania.
18. TRADE MATTERS
On December 21, 2001, the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Nikon Precision Inc. and Nikon Research Corporation of America filed
a complaint in the U.S. International Trade Commission (the “ITC”) against ASM Lithography Holding N.V. , ASM Lithography B.V. both Dutch
Corporation and ASM Lithography, Inc., a sales subsidiary of ASM Lithography Holding N.V. in the U.S., (“AMSL”) for an exclusion order from
the ITC to prevent any further importation of the stepper and scanner machines from infringing the Company’s patents in the U.S. pursuant to
section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930. The ITC adopted its Final Determination that Nikon’s request for the exclusion order was denied on
March 17, 2003. The Company, Nikon Precision Inc. and Nikon Research Corporation of America filed a Notice of Appeal to the Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit of the ITC decision on May 12, 2003 and is now pending in the Court of Appeals.
Furthermore, The Company and their subsidiaries are in litigation with ASM Lithography B.V., ASM Lithography, Inc., ASML Netherlands
B.V. and its affiliated companies over patent infringement cases in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California, in the Tokyo
District Court, in the Seoul District Court and in the Suwon District Court.