USITC Staff Report: Quartz Surfaces from India and Turkey staff report USITC | Page 4

CONTENTS
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Part II: Conditions of competition in the U.S. market ............................................................ II‐1
Factors affecting purchasing decisions ............................................................................. II‐13
Comparisons of domestic products, subject imports, and nonsubject imports ................ II‐15
Comparison of U.S.‐produced and imported quartz surface products ............................. II‐17
Elasticity estimates ............................................................................................................... II‐19
U.S. supply elasticity ......................................................................................................... II‐20
U.S. demand elasticity ...................................................................................................... II‐20
Substitution elasticity ....................................................................................................... II‐20
Part III: U.S. producers’ production, shipments, and employment ....................................... III‐1
U.S. producers ....................................................................................................................... III‐1
U.S. production, capacity, and capacity utilization .............................................................. III‐10
Alternative products ........................................................................................................ III‐15
U.S. producers’ U.S. shipments and exports ........................................................................ III‐16
U.S. producers’ inventories ................................................................................................. III‐19
U.S. producers’ imports and purchases ............................................................................... III‐19
U.S. employment, wages, and productivity ......................................................................... III‐22
Part IV: U.S. imports, apparent U.S. consumption, and market shares ................................ IV‐1
U.S. importers....................................................................................................................... IV‐1
U.S. imports .......................................................................................................................... IV‐4
Critical Circumstances .......................................................................................................... IV‐9
Negligibility ......................................................................................................................... IV‐14
Cumulation considerations ................................................................................................. IV‐15
Fungibility ....................................................................................................................... IV‐15
Geographical markets ..................................................................................................... IV‐19
Presence in the market ................................................................................................... IV‐20
Apparent U.S. consumption ............................................................................................... IV‐24
U.S. market shares .............................................................................................................. IV‐25
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