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U.S. PRODUCERS
The Commission issued a U.S. producer questionnaire to 64 firms based on information
contained in the petition, information provided by the respondents and staff research. 2 Twenty
firms provided usable data on their productive operations. 3 Staff believes that the three
responses from U.S. slab producers represent the vast majority of U.S. production of quartz
surface products, 4 while the seventeen responses from U.S. fabricators represent
approximately one percent of fabricators of quartz surface products in the United States during
2017. 5 6 7 All quartz surface products will be fabricated by some entity prior to final disposition
2
Respondents’ counsel representing U.S. fabricators (primarily the Natural Stone Institute, previously
known as the Marble Institute of America) initially provided lists that included hundreds of U.S.
fabricators. Staff requested that the respondents’ counsel narrow their lists to the largest 60 U.S.
fabricators. The respondents’ counsel (***) each provided a list of their top 30 largest U.S. fabricators.
The Commission received usable U.S. producer questionnaire responses from 17 U.S. fabricators.
3
Four U.S. fabricators (Busch Products Inc., Consolidated Supply Co., International Granite and Stone,
and Palmetto Surfacing) attended the Commission’s hearing in support of the petitions and Cambria.
Consolidated Supply Co. was the only of the four firms to complete the U.S. producer’s questionnaire.
4
In its final determinations, Commerce amended the scope of these investigations to include glass
quartz surface products. Staff and petitioner’s counsel identified ten possible companies that produced
glass quartz; ***. Of these firms, *** reported that they do not produce glass quartz within the
amended scope. Only one firm indicated that it had produced glass quartz slabs that falls under the
scope of these investigations. *** indicated that it produces glass quartz slabs within the scope of these
investigations. *** has an annual capacity of *** square feet, and produced *** square feet of glass
quartz surface products in 2017. ***. Certain Quartz Surface Products from the People’s Republic of
China: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Final Affirmative Determination of
Critical Circumstances; 84 FR 3510, May 23, 2019, and email message from ***, May 21, 2019.
5
Dal-Tile Corporation, a U.S. slab producer that started production in February 2019 (according to
table III-3) submitted an incomplete U.S. producer questionnaire with limited trade data and therefore
was not included in this section of the report. Dal-Tile started slab production at its Dickson, Tennessee
facility at the end of 2018 and into early 2019. Dal-Tile reported its projected capacity for 2019 is
scheduled to be *** square feet, while its projected production for 2019 is scheduled to be *** square
feet. Company officials indicated it had *** production related workers in 2018. Dal-Tile ***. Dal-Tile
U.S. producer questionnaire response, sections II-2c and II-11.
6
USA Quartz LLC is a U.S. slab producer located in Jacksonville, Florida. USA Quartz started slab
production in late 2018 but did not submit a U.S. producer questionnaire response, ***. USA Quartz
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