85.24 Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touchsensitive screens.
This heading covers flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens, which are defined in Note 7 to this Chapter. The articles of this heading are equipped at a minimum with a display screen utilizing liquid crystal display (LCD), organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), light-emitting diodes (LED) or other display technologies. The screen types of flat panel display modules include, but are not limited to, those which are flat, curved, flexible, foldable, stretchable or rollable in form. This heading includes :(1) Flat panel display modules without drivers or control circuits, which are generally referred to as ¡®cells¡¯. In the case of LCD cells, liquid crystals are placed between two sheets or plates of glass or plastics such as TFT substrates and colour filter substrates. In the case of OLED cells, they have organic materials deposited on TFT substrates. Those cells do not contain electrical parts such as drivers or control circuits, whether or not fitted with electrical connections or attached with polarizing plates. (2) Flat panel display modules with drivers or control circuits: Drivers or control units are added to ¡®cells¡¯ of item (1). The modules may contain drivers that receive video signals or other data (e.g., text, images, ADP signals, or other graphical data) and switch individual pixels of displays (generally consisting of driver IC and PCB that connects video signals to driver IC) or control circuits of power supply for display modules or timing control. They might combine with backlight units (for LCDs) or frames (chassis). (3) Flat panel display modules with touch-sensitive screens : Touch-sensitive screens are attached to the flat panel display modules or embedded in the cell. They allow input as well as output (display) of information such as images. The articles of this heading are designed to be attached to or incorporated in a wide range of apparatus (e.g., refrigerators, automatic data processing machines, mobile phones and devices for transmission or reception of images or data, digital cameras and video camera recorders, monitors and reception apparatus for television and motor vehicles for the transport of persons). However, flat panel display modules that are not integrated into other apparatus and presented separately are classified in this heading rather than the heading in which the finished products with flat panel display modules are classified. Flat panel display modules that have been integrated into other apparatus are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the apparatus as a whole. PARTS Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI), parts of the apparatus of this heading are classified in heading 85.29. The heading excludes, inter alia :(a) Flat panel display modules with video-converting components (usually articles of headings 85.17, 85.28 and 85.29). (b) Visual signaling apparatus (indicator panel) incorporating flat panel display modules (heading 85.31). ©Ï Measuring or checking apparatus incorporating flat panel display modules (generally Chapter 90). (d) Musical instruments, incorporating flat panel display modules (Chapter 92). (e) All goods of Chapter 95 incorporating flat panel display modules (e.g. video game consoles, toys, games, exercise equipment and sport requisites, etc.).
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