PUBLIC VERSION
As discussed below, as foreign producers continue to target building materials as an opportunity to take advantage of U. S. consumers’ spending on homes and other construction projects, imports of low-priced QSP have continued surging into the U. S. market since 2020, seizing market share from domestic producers even though the domestic industry has heavily invested to build production capacity and create new jobs. From 2020 to 2024, as demand for QSP in the U. S. continued to grow [ ], imports of QSP from all sources grew from [ ] of the U. S. market to [ ] of the U. S. market by 2024. The cumulative impact of this relentless influx of imports has seriously injured the domestic industry – mothballing two U. S. production facilities since the imposition of the AD and CVD orders on imports from China, India, and Turkey. This is the exact type of situation that compels the provision of safeguard relief.
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Background on Original AD / CVD Investigations on QSP
The chart below tells the story very clearly: America’ s quartz countertop industry has been hammered by wave after wave of cheap imports that have stolen market share, driven down prices, and seriously injured U. S. domestic producers over the last five years:
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