As a result, antidumping duty orders are outstanding against imports of televisions sets from Japan, Korea, and Thailand, as well as the imports of television tubes from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Canada. Of course, the industry applauded this decision. In the past, televisions and computers, and the related monitors, were easily separated by screen size and resolution. Computers, on the other hand, generally tended to have smaller screens largely because they were intended for close-in use in an office setting. Moreover, the resolution required of a computer and its related monitor was much higher than that of a television.
Higher resolution is necessary to view characters as opposed to full motion pictures.
But now, this distinction is being blurred. And, computers with video capability are moving toward larger screen sizes and toward displaying full motion video. The computer industry and the television industry are now competing to some degree for the same viewer. This, obviously, made developing a simple definition for monitors covered by the ITA more difficult. It is important that products which enter the United States are properly classified as a computer and related monitor or as a television and related video monitor because of the tariff implications.