Final USITC Report on Chinese Quartz Imports June 2019 | Page 103

PART IV: U.S. IMPORTS, APPARENT U.S. CONSUMPTION,
AND MARKET SHARES
U.S. IMPORTERS
The Commission issued importer questionnaires to 150 firms believed to be importers
of quartz surface products (“QSP”), as well as to all U.S. producers of quartz surface products. 1
Usable questionnaire responses were received from 84 companies, representing a known 69.1
percent of U.S. imports of slab-form quartz surface products from China, 96.8 percent of slabs
from nonsubject sources, and 81.9 percent of slabs from all import sources during 2017 under
HTS subheading 6810.99.0010 (QSP slabs). 2 The 84 questionnaire likely represent the majority
of U.S. imports of quartz surface products in fabricated forms from all sources. 3 4 Import data in
this report are based on official Commerce statistics (for quartz surface products in slab form)
and supplemented by questionnaire responses for fabricated QSP (which includes but is not
1
The Commission issued questionnaires to those firms identified in the petition, along with firms
that, based on a review of data provided by Customs, may have accounted for more than one percent of
total imports under HTS statistical reporting number 6810.99.0010 in 2017.
2
The coverage estimate was calculated as the quantity of imports of slabs of quartz surface products
from China in 2017 reported in the U.S. importer questionnaire (41.8 million square feet) divided by the
quantity of total U.S. imports from China reported for 2017 in Commerce’s official import statistics (60.4
million square feet).
3
The Commission also received U.S. importer questionnaires from nine firms that were excluded
from the dataset due to late submission, data reconciliation, and/or consistency issues: ***. The
Commission received “NO” responses to the U.S. importer questionnaire from an additional two firms.
4
The coverage estimates were calculated as the quantity of imports of fabricated forms of quartz
surface products from China in 2017 reported in the U.S. importer questionnaire (approximately 5.8
million square feet) divided by the quantity of total U.S. imports from China reported for 2017 in
Commerce’s official import statistics (approximately 5.9 million square feet).
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