Final USITC Report on Chinese Quartz Imports June 2019 | Page 117

Figure IV-3
Quartz surface products: U.S. producers’ and U.S. importers’ U.S. shipments by thickness, 2017
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Table IV-5 and figure IV-4 present data for U.S. producers’ and U.S. importers’ U.S.
shipments by design for 2017. 16 U.S. shipments, by design range, are categorized by colors:
granite design, marble design, uniform white design, uniform neutral design, uniform dark
design, and other designs. For U.S. shipments of domestically produced slab-form quartz
surface products, the marble design accounted for the largest share of shipment by type (***
percent) followed by granite design (*** percent), and then uniform designs (*** percent).
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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 design, 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
design, 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.
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