The Trump Administration's 232 Investigation into the national security implications of imported aluminum has roared back to life. Government agencies, elected officials, and industry leaders have restarted this investigation, which had been put on the back burner by the administration as they grappled with the new tax bill. With the January 27, 2018 deadline for the Department of Commerce to issue its recommendations to the president nearing, we have a lot of work to do to press our case. During a workshop at our Aluminum Summit in Denver in September we discussed the key issues, the threats from this action, and the opportunity. It was overwhelming agreed that we owe it to our industry to stay involved. So, over the coming weeks we will be finalizing our remedy and taking it to D.C. to make our case. We aim to go back to all of the government agencies we visited this summer and to Capitol Hill where we enjoyed a lot of support for our position. This is w...
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.