Category: Import Trends

Import Trends

Import Trends 2004 A Factor of Two

By Emerson Schwartzkopf
 

In 1996, the dimensional
stone industry looked pretty good with more than $500 million in
imports, but it might’ve been hard to get anyone to wager that, nine
years later, that figure would double. Anything beyond that would be a
sucker bet.

Import Trends

Stone Use Growth Continues

VERONA, Italy – Stone use continued to expand in 2001, even with a softening world economy, according to two studies released here during the Marmomacc stone exhibition in October. The Association of Italian Stone...

Import Trends

U.S. Customs Classification of Building Stone

By Jacob Bunin
National Import Specialist                                        
U.S. Customs and Border Protection

   Knowledge of the principles that guide U.S. Customs’ classification of monumental and building stone is crucial to anyone who imports this merchandise into the United States — including traditional importing firms, as well as any fabricator, who brings stone into the country and acts as the importer of record.