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Chinese Tariffs and their Effect on the Tile Industry

Architectural Ceramics

Retailers and product-based companies in many consumer categories are affected by the new tariffs and countervailing charges implemented on goods from China. Keep in mind most importers, like Architectural Ceramics, imported excess stock to get through this transition. for unglazed ceramic 10% for unglazed porcelain 8.5%

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Back to Basics: AC’s Ceramic Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

While children everywhere are going back to school, let’s go back to basics and learn about ceramic tile through a few of Architectural Ceramic’s collections: Basics, London, and City Hall. Let’s learn a bit about how ceramic tile is classified. The principles used to create ceramic tile are basic.

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Decorator On Demand: Decorating For China

Decorator on Demand

Decorating For China. I recently got a long distance client, and in long distance I mean Bejing, China of all places. Labels: Bejing , China , corporate lobby , interior design. I am Marie Cole, an interior designer who launched an online decorating service for people who are do it yourselfers and need some design help.

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Ceramic: Producers push innovation as consumption falls

Floor Covering News

As was predicted this time last year, consumption of ceramic tile in 2019 is lower than that of the previous year. The downward trend began in 2018, and the residential ceramic business slowed for the first three quarters of 2019. This is on top of the current Section 301 tariffs imposed on ceramic tile.

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Stats 2021: Laminate picks up right where it left off in 2020

Floor Covering News

Volume-wise, the category grew at a slower rate (3.1%) compared to sales, reflecting higher prices for resins, melamine and fiberboard materials—some of the primary ingredients that go into the production of laminate flooring. That puts the category behind resilient (53.6%), ceramic (19.6%) and hardwood (17%) with respect to dollars.

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Exclusive: MSI sees opportunities amid challenges

Floor Covering News

Raj Shah, MSI co-CEO M S International, more commonly known as MSI, started making headlines about 15 years ago as an affordable source of ceramic tile and stone. Over the past decade, the 48-year-old company got into the SPC game in a huge way, becoming the second-largest supplier of that product in the U.S. Obviously, WPC is one.

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Art Deco Delights

Diary of a Tile Addict

Here a very extensive and well chosen palette of colours is perfectly matched to the three-dimensionality of the tiles, creating an explosion of decorative possibilities where each element contributes to virtually infinite design solutions. The Art Deco collection from Etruria Design. The Art Deco collection from Etruria Design.

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