PUBLIC VERSION
I.
INTRODUCTION
On behalf of the Quartz Manufacturing Alliance of America( the“ QMAA” or“ Petitioner”), the petitioner and an alliance of U. S. producers of quartz surface products(“ QSP”) and thus producers of the domestic like product, we hereby submit this petition pursuant to Sections 201 and 202 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended( the“ Trade Act”), for relief for the entire U. S. domestic industry from a massive surge of imports of QSP. 1
This is not the first time that the domestic industry has sought relief from the injurious impact on the U. S. domestic industry of imports of QSP. In fact, the domestic industry has twice previously sought relief under the U. S. trade remedy laws to level the playing field for U. S. domestic producers – first in antidumping(“ AD”) and countervailing duty(“ CVD”) investigations against the People’ s Republic of China(“ China”) and later in AD / CVD investigations against India and the Republic of Turkey(“ Turkey”). Imports of QSP from China, India, and Turkey have been subject to the imposition of AD / CVD duties for more than five years and the AD / CVD orders remain in effect today. Unfortunately, the orders have not prevented serious injury to the domestic industry from an onslaught of imports from countries across the globe, including a substantial volume of imports that have been transshipped through third countries or misclassified in a way to evade the payment of the AD / CVD duties. This evasion of existing remedies on unfairly traded imports of QSP by countries such as Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam is a critical reason that the domestic industry now seeks safeguards relief.
1 19 U. S. C. §§ 2251-2252.