Final USITC Report on Chinese Quartz Imports June 2019 | Page 90

Table III-14
Quartz surface products: U.S. slab producers’ and independent U.S. fabricators’ inventories,
January to September 2017, and January to September 2018
Item
Calendar year
January to September
2016
2017
2017
2018
Quantity (1,000 square feet)
2015
U.S. slab producers' end-
of-period inventories in slab
form ***
Ratio of inventories to.--
U.S. production
U.S. shipments
Total shipments ***
***
***
U.S. slab producers' and
independent fabricators'
end-of-period inventories in
fabricated form ***
***
***
Ratio (percent) *** ***
***
***
***
***
***
***
Quantity (1,000 square feet) ***
***
*** ***
***
***
*** ***
***
***
Ratio (percent)
Ratio of inventories to.--
U.S. production
***
***
***
***
***
U.S. shipments
***
***
***
***
***
Total shipments
***
***
***
***
***
Note.--Shares and ratios shown as "0.0" represent values greater than zero, but less than "0.05" percent.
Source: Compiled from data submitted in response to Commission questionnaires.
U.S. PRODUCERS’ IMPORTS
U.S. slab producers’ and independent U.S. fabricators’ imports of quartz surface
products are presented in table III-15 for 2015-17, January to September 2017, and January to
September 2018. 18 Two out of three U.S. slab producers *** imported quartz surface products
from *** sources during 2015-17. 19 From 2015 through 2017, ***
18
Additional information of all U.S. fabricators' business model is included in Appendix F of this
report, which provides a detailed break out of each firm's U.S. production by source of inputs as well as
each firm's combined imports and purchases of imports over the data collection period.
19
At the Commission’s hearing, Dan Prokop, the production Director at LG Hausys of America
indicated “LG Hausys relies on imports to supply those particular quartz products that our Georgia
factory does not produce and indeed, our ability to offer a full product line actually helps us to grow our
sales of U.S. produced quartz.” Hearing transcript, p. 174 (Prokop).
III-26