Understanding TAA Compliance: How Vanguard LED Displays Meet U.S. Government Procurement Standards

In order to sell any agency of the USA government, obviously including the US military, a supplier must be compliant under the Trade Agreement Act (TAA).

There are two (2) ways in which Vanguard’s LED products qualify as TAA-originating. First their displays can be “substantially transformed” in a TAA signatory country, or in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) country to which the United States has unilaterally extended TAA procurement benefits. Second, they may qualify as “U.S.-Origin End Products”, as defined in the Foreign Acquisition Regulations (FAR).

Vanguard LED Displays is TAA compliant under either scenario.

Vanguard sources its TAA compliant products in South Korea, a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) country to which the United States has unilaterally extended TAA procurement benefits. The LED display components are “substantially transformed” in South Korea and as a result the LED displays produced in South Korea for Vanguard LED Displays are TAA compliant.

Vanguard’s LED displays are also considered “U.S.-Origin End Products”, as defined in the Foreign Acquisition Regulations (FAR). All video displays contain a large number of light emitting-diode (LED) bulbs. The LED bulbs are populated onto a bare printed circuit board and then assembled with a driver integrated circuit (IC Driver). At this point the display boards are non-functional.

Next, a hub board PCBA with a receiving card are combined, which then can receive electronic signals and commands from an external controller.

Vanguard will assemble a complete cabinet, at its facility in Lakeland, FL USA, including power supplies, cables and adapters forming frames for the display units (modules) to be fitted into the cabinet at the appropriate time.

At this point the LED display units are still not functional, in that they are not capable of receiving signals or displaying images.

Regardless of where they are made or assembled the display modules and frames are shipped separately. In the United States at Vanguard’s Florida facility, the modules are integrated with the frames, with various components being attached together, creating, at that precise moment, video display panels that are capable of receiving signals and displaying images. Controllers will provide instructions to the displays enabling the system to generate images.

The product’s functionality is the result of operations performed in the United States.

THEREFORE, THESE PRODUCTS ARE CONSIDERED “U.S.-ORIGIN END PRODUCTS”.