• On November 7, 2019, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced its affirmative preliminary determination in the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of ceramic tile from China.
• The AD law provides U.S. businesses and workers with a transparent, quasi-judicial, and internationally accepted mechanism to seek relief from the market distorting effects caused by injurious dumping of imports into the United States, establishing an opportunity to compete on a level playing field.
• For the purpose of AD investigations, dumping occurs when a foreign company sells an imported product in the United States at less than fair value.
• Commerce assigned a preliminary dumping rate of 244.26 for mandatory respondent Belite Ceramics (Anyang) Co., Ltd. Commerce assigned a preliminary dumping rate of 114.49 for mandatory respondent Foshan Sanfi Import & Export Co., Ltd. Commerce calculated a preliminary dumping margin of 178.20 percent for the non-selected respondents eligible for a separate rate, and a preliminary dumping margin of 356.02 percent for the China-wide entity.
• As a result of the preliminary affirmative determination, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to require cash deposits from ceramic tile from China based on these preliminary rates.
• The petitioner is the Coalition for Fair Trade in Ceramic Tile. The members of the Coalition for Fair Trade in Ceramic Tile are American Wonder Porcelain (Lebanon, TN), Crossville, Inc. (Crossville, TN), Dal-Tile Corporation (Dallas, TX), Del Conca USA, Inc. (Loudon, TN), Florida Tile, Inc. (Lexington, KY), Florim USA (Clarksville, TN), Landmark Ceramics (Mount Pleasant, TN), and StonePeak Ceramics (Chicago, IL).
• The scope of this investigation is listed in Appendix I.
• In 2018, imports of ceramic tile from China were valued at an estimated $481.3 million.
• The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance’s Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov, and to all parties in the Central Records Unit, Room B8024 of the main Department of Commerce building. Please refer to case number A-570-108. More →
https://enforcement.trade.gov/download/factsheets/factsheet-prc-ceramic-tile-ad-prelim-110719.pdf
