PUBLIC VERSION
stealing the opportunity to use domestically produced QSP slabs. Based on current trends, unless the safeguard remedy encompasses prefabricated product, U. S. fabricators will be wiped out.
The QMAA believes that some or all of these potential forms of relief are necessary to remedy the serious injury, and threat thereof, caused by imports. In addition, the QMAA welcomes participation in any other program designed to strengthen U. S. manufacturing of QSP and the products made by the industry’ s customers. To effectively address the harm suffered by the domestic industry, the QMAA anticipates that any remedy will need to last, at a minimum, for the initial statutory period of up to four years, with the option to extend such relief for as long as eight years as required to ensure that imports do not continue causing serious injury to the domestic industry.
The QMAA also reserves the right to amend or adjust any of the requested remedies during this investigation as the record develops and expects to provide further details as the proceeding advances.
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THE INCREASE IN IMPORTS RESULTED FROM UNFORESEEN DEVELOPMENTS AND FROM OBLIGATIONS INCURRED UNDER THE WTO AGREEMENT
Consistent with U. S. obligations under Article XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(“ GATT”) and the World Trade Organization’ s(“ WTO”) Agreement on Safeguards(“ Safeguards Agreement”), the recent surge in imports of QSP, which is a substantial cause of serious injury to the domestic QSP industry, is the result of unforeseen developments and the effects of earlier U. S. trade concessions. In previous safeguard investigations, the Commission has analyzed whether the increased imports at issue resulted from unforeseen developments and
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