For those of you who attended last month’s Annual Meeting & Leadership Conference, you are well aware of the growing threats we are seeing in the market. While our own case continues to hold up nicely, there are a variety of issues involving trade enforcement that are becoming the front-and-center issue of our trade orders. To that end, our lead attorney, Robert DeFrancesco, discussed the opportunities that may arise from the new administration. Afterwards, we participated in our annual Town Hall and discussed these growing threats and how we may be able to approach Washington with the hope of more help. Story after story from the members in attendance discussed the increased shipments from Vietnam and Malaysia, and their impact in certain markets. For many of us, it sounded like “deja vu all over again”! However, we do have a variety of options, and in the weeks to come we will be exploring those options. With the new administration beginning t...
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.