Final USITC Report on Chinese Quartz Imports June 2019 | Page 4

CONTENTS
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Part II: Supply and demand information .................................................................. Continued
Substitutability issues ............................................................................................................. II-19
Lead times .......................................................................................................................... II-20
Knowledge of country sources ............................................................................................... II-20
Factors affecting purchasing decisions .................................................................................. II-21
Product comparisons .......................................................................................................... II-25
Elasticity estimates ................................................................................................................. II-32
U.S. supply elasticity ........................................................................................................... II-32
U.S. demand elasticity ....................................................................................................... II-33
Substitution elasticity ......................................................................................................... II-33
Part III: U.S. producer’s production, shipments, and employment ...................................... III-1
U.S. producers ......................................................................................................................... III-1
Important industry events ...................................................................................................... III-6
U.S. production, capacity, and capacity utilization ............................................................... III-12
Alternative products ............................................................................................................. III-19
U.S. producer’s U.S. shipments and exports ......................................................................... III-21
U.S. producer’s inventories ................................................................................................... III-25
U.S. producer’s imports......................................................................................................... III-26
U.S. employment, wages, and productivity .......................................................................... III-34
Part IV: U.S. imports, apparent U.S. consumption, and market shares ................................ IV-1
U.S. importers.......................................................................................................................... IV-1
U.S. Imports ............................................................................................................................. IV-5
Crititcal circumstances ............................................................................................................ IV-8
Negligibility ............................................................................................................................ IV-11
Fungibility .............................................................................................................................. IV-12
Apparent U.S. consumption .................................................................................................. IV-18
U.S. market shares ................................................................................................................ IV-20
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