Enforcement, the Aluminum 232, scope challenges, and our upcoming Sunset Review will be generating a lot of activity in our trade case in the coming months. This month, I want to walk through the key issues we will be handling during the balance of this year and into 2022. At the top of the list is enforcement. The Aluminum Extruders Council is currently working on two Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) claims and a scope challenge in the Kingtom matter. Having won preliminary decisions in both EAPA claims, our focus has moved to finalizing those decisions before the end of 2021 and using the basis for our victory to defend ourselves against the scope challenge Kingtom filed a couple of weeks ago. In that scope challenge, Kingtom claims they should be excluded from any duties because all the extrusions exported to the U.S. were produced in the Dominican Republic. This, of course, flies in the face of the findings from Customs that Kingtom did in fact comingle Chinese extrusions and
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.