In the last few weeks we have advanced several open issues important to our trade case against China. Meanwhile, critical macro-political issues remain open and pose risks to our market in 2019. Let’s first discuss our case. The Seventh Administrative Review is underway. Preliminary results are expected in late January 2019. The AEC withdrew its requests for mandatory respondents in October. The Department of Commerce (DOC) will be selecting respondents in December. Given the history of reviews in recent years, there is a high likelihood that no respondents will come forward and rates will remain as they are today: 80% on the dumping case and 26% for the subsidy case. Scope issues continue to be the most active legal element of our orders. Working with Endura Products, we continue to push the DOC for a decision in the door threshold cases. We are waiting for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to announce the date of 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.