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characteristics and uses; (2) interchangeability; (3) channels of distribution; (4) common
manufacturing facilities, production processes, and production employees; (5) customer and
producer perceptions; and (6) price. Information regarding these factors is discussed below.
The Commission in the preliminary phase found a single domestic like product including
not fabricated slabs (“slabs”), fabricated quartz surface products (“fabs”), and custom-finished
fully-fabricated quartz surface products (“CFFFQSP”), observing that although there are
distinctions between the three types, there was limited information on the record to enable the
Commission to fully examine this issue. 41
Petitioners argued that the Commission should define a single domestic like product, co-
extensive with the scope of these investigations, which included not fabricated slabs of quartz
surface products. 42 At the Commission’s hearing, the petitioner reaffirmed that the domestic
like product should be co-extensive with the scope, and it should be a single domestic like
product including quartz surface slabs and surfaces that have been fabricated. 43
In its prehearing brief, the joint respondents indicated that they agreed that there was
one like product, and they contended that there was one domestic industry comprised of slab
producers and fabricators. 44 45
41
Quartz Surface Products from China, Inv. Nos. 701-TA-606 and 731-TA-1416 (Preliminary) USITC
Publication 4794, June 2018, p. 10.
42
Petition, pp. 13-14.
43
Hearing transcript, p. 36 (Drake).
44
Joint Respondents (Hogan Lovells) prehearing brief, pp. 6-14, and Respondents (Harris Bricken)
prehearing brief, p.7.
45
The Chinese respondents did not comment on the like product or domestic industry in its
prehearing or posthearing briefs.
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