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~OFFTHEAR The strange case of the dumped displays BY ROBERT ANGUS Optical Imaging Systems, which em- Appalachians. A decision taken to pro- ploys fewer than 100 persons, in Troy, Last summer, the International Trade Michigan. OIS is one of eight companies tect some U.S. jobs may actually be cost- Administration, an obscure section of that complained to ITA about possible the Commerce Department, decided LCD dumping. ITA’s solution: Make im- ing the country jobs. that Japanese-made active-matrix LCDs porters post a bond equal to nearly two- were being dumped on the U.S. market thirds of the price of each LCD until the The LCDs that OIS makes aren’t for less than they cost to manufacture, appeals are exhausted. Theoretically, thereby endangering U.S. manufacturers the fee applies only to LCDs imported as even suitable for consumer electronics of active-matrix LCDs and the jobs of components. But thanks to a bewilder- products, according to company vice their employees. At the time, it sounded ing set of technicalities, it also applies to like just one more president David Marvin. They’re expen- of the hundreds of the finished products of some manufac- arcane rulings is- turers—like Sharp, Toshiba and Mit- sive, high-precision types used in de- sued every day by subishi— which contain LCDs. various branches fense and avionics electronics. Marvin of the federal gov- Some of these companies already as- ernment. semble TV receivers in the U.S. to avoid says that OJS hasn’t the capacity at the other penalties assessed as the result of moment to produce video- or computer- This one, anti-dumping decisions involving TV however, affects sets. If Sharp were to do the same with quality LCDs in not only jobs, but its Sharpvision projector — available now the availability of only without a tuner, to avoid qualifying quantity — though as a TV receiver —the anti-dumping a new generation penalties on the LCDs alone would it might like to get of video and com- amount to an extra $376 for each unit puter products. At sold, according to Television Digest. Iron- into this business the very least, it ically, assembling Watchman-type TVCR combos, LCD projectors with in the future. In means consumers tuners and laptop computers could add will have to pay thousands of jobs in the U.S., in plants other words, with- more than they ranging from southern California to the should for prod- out protection ucts ranging from LCD video projec- from ITA, the Air tors and personal TVCRs to laptop Force might lose computers. It’s also possible the ruling, which is being appealed, will prevent its only domestic ne products from ever coming to mar- et. source of high- Foreign electronics shows indicate quality LCDs. that a number of new products incor- porating active-matrix LCDs, which are Still, one already for sale in Europe and Japan, simply won’t be available here at any would think price. Of course, videophiles who live in Buffalo, New York, Detroit or Seattle Washington could may be able to nip across the border to pick up a nice LCD TVCR combination come up with a so- unit or a large-screen LCD projector with tuner from a Canadian dealer. Can- lution that would ada has no domestic LCD industry to protect. protect OIS as a defense contractor The U.S. hasn’t much of one, either. By far the largest U.S. manufacturer is while at the same time allowing American workers to assemble for- eign LCDs into consumer products that American buyers can afford. The net re- sult has been to deny American con- sumers a new generation of video and computer products, despite the fact that they are already available in other coun- tries. And in the places where they are available, the products using these dis- plays are still expensive, partly because they have yet to experience the price-re- ducing economies of mass production. Since the U.S. represents roughly one- third of the world market, the federal government'’s ruling, if it is upheld, prob- ably means that it will be a long, long time before these products become af- fordable even in Tokyo, Frankfurt or Windsor, Ontario. a LCAAIMRPDBEL 104 VIDEO FEBRUARY 1992

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