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Table V-16
Quartz surface products: Summary of weighted-average f.o.b. prices for CFFFQSP products 1-6
from the United States and China
Change in
Low price
High price
price over
Number of
(per square
(per square
period 1
Item
quarters
foot)
foot)
(percent)
Product 1:
United States
15
37.45
52.31
(4.8)
China
Product 2:
United States
15 11.76 15.95 (3.0)
15 39.25 46.29 3.3
China
Product 3:
United States 15 11.10 21.72 (18.2)
15 *** *** ***
China
Product 4:
United States
China
Product 5:
United States
China
Product 6:
United States 15 *** *** ***
15
15 45.30
*** 50.92
*** (0.6)
***
15
15 24.97
*** 41.62
*** 37.0
***
15 34.00 42.88 (4.9)
China
15
***
***
***
Percentage change from the first quarter in which data were available to the last quarter in which price
data were available.
1
Source: Compiled from data submitted in response to Commission questionnaires.
As shown in figure V‐15, domestic prices for CFFFQSP product 4 (the largest volume of 
domestic CFFFQSP price products) irregularly increased during the first quarter of 2015 to the 
third quarter of 2017, decreased in the fourth quarter of 2017 and then fluctuated for the last 
three quarters. Domestic prices for CFFFQSP product 5 increased steadily from the fourth 
quarter of 2016 through the second quarter of 2018; it was the only domestic CFFFQSP product 
for which prices increased consistently through multiple quarters of the period. 

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