This month we find ourselves in a waiting game. We are awaiting word on the proposal to re-impose 232 aluminum duties on imports from Canada, and possibly Mexico. We are waiting on word about a key scope challenge concerning a curtain wall product. We are waiting to see which Chinese extruders the Department of Commerce (DOC) selects for this year’s Administrative Review. As we have seen in the past, there often comes a time when all the pinwheels are turning that we have to wait and see how it plays out. Now, as you know, we haven’t been sitting back over the last few weeks, or even months. Instead, we joined voices to re-state our case that the 232 aluminum tariffs should be removed and our industry allowed to purchase metal at the global price. We’ve worked hard in our filings to the DOC about key scope challenges like the curtain wall case and more recently, solar mounting systems. Furthermore, we are leaning on the DOC to persuade them to...
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.