Flat-panel displays make up a significant portion of the cost of producing laptop computers—as much as 50%.

Therefore, the antidumping tax would substantially increase the cost, and thus the price, of U.S.-manufactured

laptops. As a result of the ITC’s decision, Apple moved its domestic manufacturing plant for Macintosh computers to

Ireland (where it had an existing plant). Toshiba shut down its U.S. manufacturing plant for laptops. And IBM

cancelled plans to open a laptop manufacturing plant in North Carolina, instead deciding to expand production at its

plant in Japan. In this case, rather than having the desired effect of protecting U.S. interests and giving domestic

manufacturing an advantage over items manufactured elsewhere, it had the unintended effect of driving the

manufacturing completely out of the country. Many people lost their jobs and most flat-panel display production

now occurs in countries other than the United States.
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