Jeff Henderson This month representative members of the Aluminum Extruders Council will join me in Washington D.C. to testify before the International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking another five years of trade protection from our orders. This hearing will be followed by a decision from the ITC to either end or extend our orders. We are confident in our success. Please note that once again no one representing the Chinese extrusion industry will be present to rebut our testimony. So, it seems reasonable to expect our petition to be extended. There will be companies testifying that their particular product should be excluded from the orders because it is not a ‘like product’ to extrusions. We saw this in 2011 when representatives from the shower and bath industry and from a heat sink manufacturer made their case that they should be excluded because what they bought from extruders was so dissimilar to a ‘real extrusion’. In that round the shower and bath ...
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) has led the U.S. aluminum extrusion industry in achieving level competition by winning tariff protection that offsets unfair trade practices of extruders/importers of aluminum profiles produced in China. Our efforts have been of enormous value to domestic extruders and suppliers. Conservatively, an estimated 800 million pounds per year of extrusions are being produced in the U. S. that would have otherwise been lost to China.