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products to fabricating other products such as marble, granite, crystal stone, engineered
marble, and other natural stones.
Imports from nonsubject sources
Nonsubject imports accounted for 44.2 percent of total U.S. imports in 2017. The largest
sources of nonsubject imports during 2015‐17 were Spain (17.6 percent of total U.S. imports),
Israel (11.4 percent of total U.S. imports), and Canada (6.7 percent of total U.S. imports).
Combined, these three countries accounted for 65.7 percent of nonsubject imports in 2017.
Supply constraints
Ten of 19 responding U.S. producers, mostly fabricators, reported supply constraints
since January 2015. These firms reported delays in shipments, lack of inventories, and
backorders since the initiation of this AD/CVD investigation. In addition, *** stated that
demand for certain colors exceeds supply from time to time. U.S. fabricator *** stated that it
had a sudden change to its stocking mix due to products being discontinued by its distributors.
Two U.S. fabricators (***) reported that they had orders with Caesarstone that were delayed in
shipping. 27 Additionally, two U.S. slab producers reported supply constraints. U.S. producer ***
stated that it frequently was unable to meet timely shipment commitments due to capacity
constraints until its ***. U.S. producer *** stated it was unable to supply customer orders on a
limited number of occasions due to the lack of internal availability of certain products.
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U.S. fabricator *** stated that some orders from Caesarstone were three months past due during
2017.
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