The US has finally decided that it doesn’t make much sense to put such prohibitive import duties on Japanese active matrix displays that every company that wants to use them in notebook computers has to export US jobs by making the machines abroad (no duty was levied on finished machines using the screens), especially as the industry the move was intended to protect was vistigial and could never meet one fiftieth of demand; the duties have been lifted this week, but it is unlikely to lead to any rush by the likes of IBM Corp and Apple Computer Inc to repatriate the work to the US.
