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- From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
- Subject: Re: "Dumping"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.160541.24567@cs.rochester.edu>
- Organization: University of Rochester
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:05:41 GMT
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- In article <yhS=4f#@engin.umich.edu> jwh@citi.umich.edu writes:
- ...
- >It should be noted that
- >there was never a flat screen industry in the U.S., so these tarrifs
- >are hardly protecting any jobs.
-
- This is false.
-
- There were, indeed, companies in the flat screen business in the US; in
- fact, IBM had a plasma display for sale for a number of years. Most of
- the original LCD and other flat-screen patents were filed here. There
- were a number of small companies producing LCD and electro-luminescent
- displays here. Most of the small companies are now out of business;
- plasma displays, of course, are too much of a power hog for portable
- computers. It would take about a day's work to dig up the names of the
- involved companies.
-
- >It should also be noted that prior
- >to the tarrifs, companies like Apple and IBM were making their laptop
- >and notebook computers in the U.S. However, thanks to the new tarrifs,
- >production of these computers has been moved offshore. Why? Flat
- >screens carry no tarrif when they are a component of a finished product.
- >Here we have a perfect example of how the U.S. government cost real
- >jobs in an effort to 'protect' jobs which never existed.
-
- Prior to the tariffs, Apple and IBM had not started making laptops
- _or_ notebook computers. Apple only came out with the Mac portable
- (which was a joke) about three years ago; IBM has only just entered
- this market. The exception for finished products is stupid; and it
- doesn't make sense to tariff if you don't have a domestic industry.
- Unfortunately, the domestic industry was dead before the tariffs went
- into effect.
-
- Mark
- --
- Mark A. Fulk University of Rochester
- Computer Science Department fulk@cs.rochester.edu
-