Save Quartz Jobs
Protecting American Jobs. Supporting Small Businesses. Keeping Countertops and Vanities Affordable.
Save Quartz Jobs is a coalition of more than one thousand U.S. fabricators, retailers, distributors, and suppliers supporting over 100,000 American jobs across all 50 states — most of them in manufacturing. Our members are the small and family-owned businesses that measure, cut, and install quartz surface products, the most popular material used in kitchens and bathrooms for new construction and home renovation nationwide.
The Safeguard Threat
On November 17, 2025, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) launched Investigation No. TA-201-79: Quartz Surface Products following a petition for import relief filed by multinational companies Cambria Company, Dal-Tile, Guidoni, and Hyundai L&C.
This petition invokes Section 201 “safeguard” measures — an extremely rare trade tool that targets imports from every country in the world.
The Petitioners are asking the U.S. government to impose steep tariffs and strict quotas on imported quartz surface products. They claim imports are harming U.S. producers. In reality, these restrictions would devastate American manufacturing, eliminate thousands of jobs, and raise housing costs at a time when affordability is already at crisis levels.
What’s at Stake
Quartz fabrication is an American manufacturing success story, supporting more than 100,000 American workers. Limiting quartz imports would:
- Double material costs for fabricators and installers
- Slow construction and renovation timelines
- Exacerbate the national housing affordability crisis — especially in rapidly growing states such as Texas, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona
These impacts would be felt by workers, small business owners, builders, and families nationwide.
The Facts
- The vast majority of U.S. quartz producers oppose this petition.
- Cambria already dominates the luxury segment and does not need government protection.
- The petition would benefit large, profitable corporations while harming the small businesses that keep this industry running.
- The proposed trade barriers would create supply shortages; force fabricators to switch to less-popular, less-functional alternatives; and push housing prices even higher — putting homeownership further out of reach for American families.
Resources
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- Arizona Tile, Elite Quartz Manufacturing, MS International Hearing Testimony
- December 15, 2025 – Coalition Press Release
- USITC Investigation 201-79 Initiation Notice
- U.S. Fabricators’ Questionnaire
- U.S. Importers’ Questionnaire
- U.S. Producers’ Questionnaire
- U.S. Purchasers’ Questionnaire
- Foreign Producers’/Exporters’ Questionnaire
- Reason: American Quartz Manufacturers Want To Make Kitchen Countertops Even More Expensive
- Retrofit: Save Quartz Jobs Launches to Ensure Access to Affordable Quartz
- Axios: Quartz Tariff Could Raise Countertop Costs
- Arizona Tile, Elite Quartz Manufacturing, and MS International Prehearing Brief
- C&C North America, Cosentino Industrial S.A.U., and Stone Suppliers Prehearing Brief
- Quartz Manufacturing Alliance of America Prehearing Brief
Frequently Asked Question
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Save Quartz Jobs is a coalition of more than one thousand U.S. fabricators, retailers, distributors, and suppliers supporting over 100,000 American jobs formed to oppose a trade petition filed by three multinational companies seeking to impose steep tariffs and quotas on imported quartz surface products. The petitioners are asking the U.S. government to impose steep tariffs and strict quotas on imported quartz surface products that would devastate American manufacturing, eliminate thousands of jobs, and raise housing costs at a time when affordability is already at crisis levels.
On November 17, 2025, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) agreed to initiate a Section 201 investigation in response to a petition for import relief filed by multinational companies Hyundai L&C, Cambria Company, Dal-Tile and Guidoni.
This petition requests Section 201 “safeguard” measures, targeting imports from every country in the world.
Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 is a rarely used trade tool that authorizes the President to provide temporary “safeguard” relief to a U.S. industry that is seriously threatened with injury due to a surge in imports.
The provision is intended to give the affected industry time to adjust during a period of critical harm. It is not meant to protect multinational companies like the petitioners that continue to post record sales and profits amid strong domestic demand. Historically, Section 201 has been invoked only in exceptional circumstances where government intervention is deemed necessary to prevent significant damage to a domestic industry.
Yes. The impact would be felt by small business owners, builders, fabricators, and consumers across the country.
Imposing safeguard restrictions would limit access to affordable materials, delay construction projects, and drive-up prices nationwide. Quartz is essential to new home construction and renovation, yet U.S. slab production meets only a fraction of domestic demand. Most fabricators simply cannot source enough material locally to keep up with customer needs.
Trade restrictions would put an American manufacturing success story at risk and jeopardize U.S. fabricators, retailers, distributors, and suppliers that collectively support more than 100,000 jobs across all 50 states. At a time when housing affordability is already a major challenge, adding new costs to a core component of homebuilding and remodeling would only make matters worse for American families.
Fabricators and others have until December 31, 2025 to respond to questionnaires that will help ITC determine whether to recommend imposing trade restrictions.
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