PUBLIC VERSION
China – with $ 2.2 million being paid to the whistleblower.. 36 The evasion involved the company misclassifying QSP as marble or crystallized glass between 2018 and 2023. 37
The evasion of existing remedies on unfairly traded imports of QSP involving misclassification or transshipment through countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam is a critical reason that the domestic industry has no choice other than to petition the Commission for global safeguard relief.
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Five-Year(“ Sunset”) Reviews
Earlier this year, in its first five-year(“ sunset”) review of the AD / CVD Orders on QSP from China, the Commission found that because of“ the significant and increasing volume and market share of subject imports during the original investigations, the Chinese industry’ s large capacity and exports, the attractiveness of the U. S. market, and the continued presence of subject imports in the U. S. market by transshipment through nonsubject countries” the“ volume of subject imports from China would likely be significant, both in absolute terms and relative to consumption in the United States” if the AD / CVD Orders on QSP from China were revoked. 38 With respect to price effects, the Commission stated that“ there is a high degree of substitutability between the domestic like product and subject imports and that price remains important in purchasing decisions.” 39 The Commission also found that absent the disciplining
36 U. S. Department of Justice Press Release, Allied Stone Inc. and Company Official Agree to Pay
$ 12.4M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Evaded Customs Duties( Aug. 19, 2025), attached as Exhibit 2.
37 Id.
38 Quartz Surface Products from China, Inv. Nos. 701-TA-606 and 731-TA-1416( Review), USITC Pub. 5578( Jan. 2025)(“ QSP from China First Review, USITC Pub. 5578”) at 19.
39 Id. at 21.
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