PUBLIC VERSION
III. PETITIONER’ S REPRESENTATIVENESS( 19 C. F. R. § 206.14( A))
A safeguard petition must set forth the“ percentage of domestic production of the like or directly competitive domestic article that such represented firms and / or workers account for and the basis for claiming that such firms and / or workers are representative of an industry.” 80 Neither the law nor the Commission’ s regulations require a specific threshold to establish representativeness. A. Petitioner( 19 C. F. R. § 206.14( b)( 1)) Pursuant to 19 C. F. R. § 206.14( b)( 1), the U. S. QSP producers and other companies participating as the QMAA are:
Cambria Company LLC 31496 Cambria Avenue Le Sueur, MN 56058 Website: www. cambriausa. com Tel:( 507) 665-5003 E-mail: kari. barber @ cambriausa. com
Guidoni USA 263 E Oak St McRae-Helena, GA 31055 Website: www. guidoni. com Tel:( 229) 315-8834 E-mail: rafael. guidoni @ guidoni. com. br
Dal-Tile LLC 7834 CF Hawn Freeway Dallas, TX 75217 Website: www. daltile. com Tel:( 214) 309-4222 E-mail: renaud _ dedecker @ Mohawkind. com
Architectural Surfaces, Inc. 81 401 Center Ridge Dr. Suite 100, Austin, TX 78753 Website: https:// arcsurfaces. com Tel:( 512) 264-7444 E-mail: rkaranam @ arcsurfaces. com
of U. S fabrication of QSP. QSP from China Inv Final, USITC Pub. 4913 at III-1 – III-2. Similarly, in the investigations of QSP from India and Turkey, while respondents contended that“ there are at least 10,000 fabricators operating in the United States,” only two stand-alone fabricators provided responses to the U. S. producer questionnaires. QSP from India & Turkey Inv Final, USITC Pub. 5061 at 1-17 – 1-18. Sixth, and finally, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that U. S. domestic QSP slab producers have standing to file an AD / CVD petition against imports of both slabs and fabricated product irrespective of the position of domestic fabricators. Pokarna Engineered Stone Ltd. v. United States, 56 F. 4th 1345, 1347( Fed. Cir. 2023).
80 19 C. F. R. § 206.14( b).
81 Architectural Surfaces, Inc. is not a U. S. domestic producer but joins the QMAA in support of the safeguard petition as one of the largest distributors of QSP in the United States.
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