To Facilitate Positive Adjustment to Competition From Imports of Quartz Surface Products

This proclamation imposes a four-year safeguard measure under section 203 of the Trade Act of 1974 in the form of a tariff-rate quota on imports of quartz surface products, following the ITC's affirmative serious-injury determination, effective for goods entered on or after August 15, 2026, with annual increases in within-quota quantities and reductions in duty rates in years two through four. It excludes products of Canada, Mexico, Australia, the CAFTA-DR countries, CBERA beneficiaries, Colombia, Israel, Jordan, the Republic of Korea, Panama, Peru, Singapore, and qualifying developing countries below specified import-share thresholds. The United States Trade Representative is authorized to address circumvention and import surges, negotiate agreements with foreign trading partners limiting QSP exports, and modify the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, and the Trade Representative and the Secretary of Homeland Security are directed to implement the measure.

Importers of quartz surface products to Importers must pay tariff-rate quota duties on quartz surface products (HTSUS subheadings 6810.99.0020, 6810.99.0040, and 7020.00.6000) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, from non-excluded countries (12:01 a.m. eastern time on August 15, 2026). Parties admitting quartz surface products into U.S. foreign trade zones to Admit merchandise subject to the safeguard measure into U.S. foreign trade zones as "privileged foreign status" as defined in 19 CFR 146.41, subjecting it upon entry for consumption to applicable quantitative restrictions or tariffs (12:01 a.m. eastern time on August 15, 2026).

No known legal challenges.