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products outside the United States include *** of India and *** of Turkey. The leading U.S.
importers of quartz surface products from India are ***, while the leading importer of quartz
surface products from Turkey is ***. Leading importers of quartz surface products from
nonsubject countries (primarily Spain, Vietnam, Israel, and China) include ***. U.S purchasers
of quartz surface products are primarily composed of retailers, distributors, fabricators, and/or
installers and typically vary in size from small retail installers to large commercial development
contractors and regional distributors. Leading U.S. purchasers include ***.
Apparent U.S. consumption of quartz surface products totaled approximately ***
square feet ($***) in 2019. Currently, seven firms are known to produce quartz surface
products slabs (“U.S. producers”) in the United States. 6 U.S. producers’ U.S. shipments of quartz
surface products totaled *** square feet ($***) in 2019, and accounted for *** percent of
apparent U.S. consumption by quantity and *** percent by value. U.S. imports from subject
sources totaled *** square feet ($***) in 2019 and accounted for *** percent of apparent U.S.
consumption by quantity and *** percent by value. U.S. imports from nonsubject sources
totaled *** square feet ($*** in 2019 and accounted for *** percent of apparent U.S.
consumption by quantity and *** percent by value.
Summary data and data sources
A summary of data collected in these investigations is presented in appendix C, table C‐
1. Except as noted, U.S. industry data are based on questionnaire responses of nine 7 firms that
accounted for the vast majority of U.S. production of quartz surface products slabs during
2019. 8 Useable responses to the Commission’s U.S. importer questionnaire were received from
6
***.
7
***.
8
The Commission received a U.S. producer questionnaire from a firm which indicated fabrication,
this questionnaire was excluded from the dataset due to reconciliation and consistency issues: ***.
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