USITC Staff Report: Quartz Surfaces from India and Turkey staff report USITC | Page 87

Figure IV-4
Quartz surface products: U.S. producers' and U.S. importers' U.S. shipments by Item, 2019
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Table IV‐8 and figure IV‐5 present data for U.S. producers’ and U.S. importers’ U.S.
shipments by thickness for 2019. U.S. shipments by size range are categorized based on three
standard thickness by centimeters: 1 CM, 2 CM, and 3 CM. 10 For U.S. producers’ U.S. shipments
and importers’ U.S. shipments (both subject and nonsubject), the 3 CM quartz surface products
category was the largest share of U.S. shipments by thickness followed by the 2 CM category.
For U.S. producers’ U.S. shipments, the 3 CM category accounted for (*** percent) followed by
the 2 CM category (*** percent) and the 1 CM category (*** percent). For U.S. importers’ U.S.
shipments from India and Turkey, the 3 CM category accounted *** percent and *** percent,
respectively. For U.S. importers U.S. shipments from India, the 1 CM category accounted for
*** percent of shipments of quartz surface products from India. U.S. importers *** U.S.
shipments of quartz surface products in the 1 CM category from Turkey. For U.S. importers’ U.S.
shipments from nonsubject countries the 1 CM category represented (*** percent) of
shipments by thickness.
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The most common thickness sold in the United States is the 3 CM thickness. The majority of the
costs are associated with the process to manufacture quartz surface products, not the thickness of the
product. Conference transcript, p. 41, (Shult).
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