Stuart Hirschhorn, research director at Catalina Research, shares his thoughts on what floor covering sales will look like in 2019. Looking at the demand side, Hirschhorn expects floor covering growth remain at 4-5% with the consumer being the leader, the commercial side doing well, and the builder market slowing. Hirschhorn expects a slowing at least in the first half of 2019 on the part of suppliers that import because of the surge of imports in the 3rd and 4th fourth quarters of 2018 in anticipated Chinese tariffs. Also discussed are the LVT, resilient, and wood sectors.