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PART III: U.S. PRODUCERS’ PRODUCTION, SHIPMENTS, AND
EMPLOYMENT
The Commission analyzes a number of factors in making injury determinations (see 19
U.S.C. §§ 1677(7)(B) and 1677(7)(C)). Information on the subsidies and dumping margins was
presented in Part I of this report and information on the volume and pricing of imports of the
subject merchandise is presented in Part IV and Part V. Information on the other factors
specified is presented in this section and/or Part VI and (except as noted) is based on the
questionnaire responses of twenty firms that accounted for the vast majority of U.S. slab
production of quartz surface products during 2017. 1
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The Commission received usable responses for firms that account nearly all of the production in
United States of quartz surface products at one level of processing or another. In the final phase of
these investigations, the Commission received useable information from all three U.S. producers of
engineered quartz slabs (slab producers), one of which, the petitioner Cambria, had partially integrated
slab and fabrication operations, (these three companies account for all of the production of quartz slabs
in the United States during the reporting period) and from 17 stand-alone or independent U.S.
fabricators. The stand-alone fabricators are entities that purchase product already included in the
definition of a "quartz surface product" (i.e., are U.S. purchasers) who conduct further production-
related activities in the United States on their purchases (or imports) and then resell the further
processed products (also still included in the definition of a "quartz surface product") to end users, often
with additional, out-of-scope services such as design and installation. In addition to the 17 useable
questionnaire responses from stand-alone fabricators, staff received an additional fourteen incomplete
or unusable U.S. producers' questionnaires from the following stand-alone fabricators: ***. These
submissions were missing all or part of the requested trade, financial, and pricing data, and therefore
are not included in this section or any other section this report unless otherwise noted.
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