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Domestic like product issues
In the Commission’s preliminary phase investigations concerning Quartz Surface
Products from China, the Commission examined whether quartz surface products slabs and
fabricated quartz surface products should be defined to be separate domestic like products
under its semi‐finished product test. 44 The Commission found quartz surface products slabs and
fabricated quartz surface products to be a single domestic like product. In the Commission’s
final phase investigations concerning Quartz Surface Products from China, the Commission
gathered additional information concerning slabs and fabricated quartz surface products. 45 The
Commission found a single domestic like product consisting of all quartz surface products. 46
In the final phase of these investigations, the Petitioner argues that the Commission
should define a single domestic like product coextensive with the scope of these
investigations. 47 Emphasizing that the Commission previously addressed this issue in its
preliminary determinations in these proceedings and in the preliminary and final
determinations in its investigations concerning Quartz Surface Products from China, the
Petitioner contends that the Commission again should find that quartz surface products in slab
form and fabricated quartz surface products are part of a single domestic like product. 48
According to the Petitioner, under the semi‐finished like product analysis, each of the pertinent
factors continue to support a single domestic like product definition, which includes both
quartz surface product slabs and fabricated quartz surface products. 49
In these final phase investigations, Joint Respondents agree with the Petitioner that the
Commission should define a single domestic like product. 50 Joint Respondents argue that the
record in these final phase investigations does not warrant reexamining the domestic like
product finding from the preliminary phase of these investigations when the Commission found
a single domestic like product coextensive with the scope of these investigations. 51
44
Quartz Surface Products from China, Inv. Nos. 701‐TA‐606 and 731‐TA‐1416 (Preliminary), USITC
Publication 4794, June 2018, p. 10.
45
Quartz Surface Products from China, Inv. Nos. 701‐TA‐606 and 731‐TA‐1416 (Final), USITC
Publication 4913, June 2019, p. 6.
46
Ibid.
47
Petitioner’s prehearing brief, pp. 4‐10.
48
Petitioner’s prehearing brief, p. 5.
49
Petitioner’s prehearing brief, pp. 6‐7.
50
Joint Respondents prehearing brief, p. 5.
51
Ibid.
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