Well, our year is off and running with a bang. Scope issues, Administrative Review, and circumvention top our list in early 2018. This month we learned that there will be an appeal in the curtain wall scope case. Permasteelisa and Jangho filed a notice of appeal last week. It is expected that Yuanda will almost surely file their own notice of appeal by the deadline, which is February 12. The Chinese industry signaled that they would appeal in a recent article in US Glass magazine . Additionally, our scope challenge related to door thresholds continues to move forward. This is a significant case because door thresholds are expressly mentioned as subject merchandise in our trade orders. So, to lose this application could open the door to many applications clearly covered by our case. Finally, we continue to await the judges’ (there are more than one judge at the CIT) decision in the appliance handles cases we defended last fall. We beli...
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.