Final USITC Report on Chinese Quartz Imports June 2019 | Page 8

Effective date April 17, 2018 May 7, 2018 June 1, 2018 September 14, 2018 November 8, 2018 November 13, 2018 Action Petition filed with Commerce and the Commission; institution of Commission investigations (83 FR 17675, April 23, 2018) Commerce’s notice of initiation of LTFV investigation (83 FR 22613, May 16, 2018) and Commerce’s notice of initiation of countervailing duty investigation (83 FR 22618, May 16, 2018) Commission’s preliminary determinations Commerce’s preliminary affirmative countervailing duty determination, and alignment of final determination with final antidumping duty determination (83 FR 47881, September 21, 2018) Commerce’s preliminary affirmative determination of critical circumstances, in part, in the countervailing duty investigation (83 FR 57419, November 15, 2018) Commerce’s preliminary determination of sales at LTFV and postponement of final determination (83 FR 58540, November 20, 2018) December 11, 2018 Scheduling of final phase of Commission investigations (83 FR 64597, December 17, 2018) February 7, 2019 Revised schedule of the final phase of countervailing duty and antidumping duty Investigations (84 FR 3487, February 12, 2019) May 9, 2019 May 23, 2019 Commission’s hearing Certain Quartz Surface Products From the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances (84 FR 23767) Certain Quartz Surface Products From the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances (84 FR 23760) Scheduled date for the Commission’s vote Scheduled date for Commission’s views Statutory deadline for the Commission’s determinations May 23, 2019 June 11, 2019 June 24, 2019 July 8, 2019 STATUTORY CRITERIA AND ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT Statutory criteria Section 771(7)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (the “Act”) (19 U.S.C. § 1677(7)(B)) provides that in making its determinations of injury to an industry in the United States, the Commission-- shall consider (I) the volume of imports of the subject merchandise, (II) the effect of imports of that merchandise on prices in the United States for I-2