PUBLIC VERSION
capacity with which it could have increased its sales to the U. S. market throughout the POI and contended with increasing volumes of imports that far exceeded the growth in demand. Just as the Commission recognized in the AD / CVD investigations on QSP from China and QSP from India and Turkey that no other factors could reasonably explain the domestic industry ' s losses in market share, output and revenue that resulted from the subject imports, so too here no factor other than imports can explain the domestic industry ' s losses in market share, output and revenue from 2020 to 2024.
For all the above reasons, the Commission should find that imports are the most important cause, and thereby a substantial cause, of the serious injury experienced by the domestic industry.
VII. RELIEF SOUGHT AND PURPOSE THEREOF( 19 C. F. R. § 206.14( G))
The QMAA urgently seeks relief to prevent the ongoing serious injury to the domestic QSP industry as well as the imminent threat of additional serious injury in the future. Only a strong and effective remedy can stem the flood of surging import volumes and depressed import prices. The QMAA therefore calls on the Commission to consider the following forms of relief, among others, to safeguard the domestic industry:
o A quota system that would limit the volume of imports on a country-specific basis; and
• A 50 % ad valorem tariff on all imports of QSP to address the injurious behavior of imports; or
• if an ad valorem tariff is not imposed, a specific tariff applied to the weight of the QSP at an appropriate rate to address the injurious behavior of imports.
The remedy should encompass both QSP slabs and prefabricated QSP that has been cut to size offshore before importation. The surge in imports of low-priced prefabricated QSP are also injuring U. S. fabricators by undercutting their business model, displacing demand for domestic cutting and finishing services, eroding the fabricators’ profit margins and customer base, and
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