I am happy to report that things are going well for us in our ongoing trade case against Chinese extruders. The Seventh Administrative Review has commenced, scope issues and results are falling our way, and we continue to make progress in our trade enforcement efforts. Mandatory respondents are being confirmed for the Seventh Administrative Review. We have asked the Department of Commerce to select at least one curtain wall and one door threshold exporter. This helps us in the review and in the scope challenges involving both of those end uses. Furthermore, we plan to maintain our position that the other elements that make up a curtain wall unit or door threshold, which are subsidized like the extrusions, be subject to the review. Winning this argument keeps the rates high. As a reminder, the current countervailing duty is 20% and the anti-dumping rate is 86% for a total duty of 106%. This grueling process will go on for a few mont...
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.