Some months ago, I wrote that there were several matters in our case that were under review and pending decisions. Once those decisions were made, we would then see a series of great results. Now, here they come. Having seen two such wins in the last couple of weeks I am now more certain than ever that many more are coming. This month we heard from the Department of Commerce about the Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) case filed by Ta Chen against Kingtom in the Dominican Republic. The verdict was clear and Kingtom lost. This is a significant win for us, even though we did not file it. However, we have filed our own case against Kingtom and we expect that decision on January 21, 2021. The DOC is finding that Kingtom did circumvent our trade orders by co-mingling Chinese-produced aluminum extrusions with Dominican product. These cases are kept under wraps, and we are not allowed to publicly discuss until certain thresholds in the case ar...
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.