Commerce Finds Crushed Glass Surface Products Meet Exclusion in Chinese Quartz Surface Duty Orders
The Commerce Department found in a June 29 scope ruling that crushed glass surface products produced by Golden Spectrum are outside the scope of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on certain quartz surface products from China.
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The scope language in the orders says the crushed glass content must be greater than any other single material by weight to meet the terms of the crushed glass scope exclusion, the ruling said. The exclusion also requires that pieces of crushed glass be visible "across the surface of the product" and that the pieces visible across the surface be larger than one centimeter.
In its scope ruling application, Golden Spectrum submitted photographs containing 1-inch grid lines and a metric ruler laid upon them for reference but did not show the product’s edges or other boundaries that define an individual slab or prefabricated piece, Commerce said. Golden Spectrum provided new photos in response to a supplemental questionnaire, which showed that "the individual pieces of crushed glass across Golden Spectrum’s product are visible on the surface, larger than one centimeter, and are closer than three inches apart on all six sides," satisfying all three requirements of the crushed glass exemption, Commerce said.