Final USITC Report on Chinese Quartz Imports June 2019 | Page 114

from a number of countries subject to investigations initiated on the same day that individually
account for less than 3 percent of the total volume of the subject merchandise, and if the
imports from those countries collectively account for more than 7 percent of the volume of all
such merchandise imported into the United States during the applicable 12-month period, then
imports from such countries are deemed not to be negligible. 13 Imports from China accounted
for 55.8 percent in table IV-2 of total imports of quartz surface products by quantity during
2017.
Fungibility
Table IV-4 and figure IV-3 present data for U.S. producers’ and U.S. importers’ U.S.
shipments by thickness for 2017. U.S. shipments by size range data are categorized by
centimeters; 1 cm, 2, cm, 3 cm, and other sizes. 1415 As discussed in part I, quartz surface
products are generally produced to three standard thickness 1cm, 2cm, and 3 cm. For all firm
types, the 3 cm quartz surface products category was the largest share of shipments by type.
For U.S. importers from China, the 3 category accounted for the largest share of shipments by
13
Section 771 (24) of the Act (19 U.S.C § 1677(24)).
At the Commission’s hearing, counsel for the Chinese respondents indicated that despite
differences in thickness and specifications, the different sized quartz surface products are the same
product. Hearing transcript, p.318 (Planert).
15
The data were collected by product type, not necessarily by type of firm. In particular, the data
shown for U.S. producers presents both (a) information on all U.S. shipments of slab-form quartz surface
products by thickness, which includes internal consumption reported by Cambia used in its own
fabrication as well as any commercial sales made by slab producers to independent fabricators included
in the dataset; and (b) information on all reported U.S. shipments of fabricated quartz surface products
by thickness, which includes data reported by the independent U.S. fabricators as well as data reported
by the partially integrated U.S. producer Cambria. Additionally some independent U.S. fabricators use
some portion of the reported imports in their domestic production activities. For these reasons, the
combined data in the last column double count some volume of shipments.
14
IV-12