I have been working on the Fair Trade case either as a staffer or volunteer since late 2009, and I have never seen it be more active and explosive than it is today. Our areas of focus continue to be our annual administrative review, scope challenges, trade enforcement, the 232, and now, our Sunset Review. Let’s get to it. Read this month’s Blog post to learn what’s in store in 2022. We are awaiting the final decision from the Department of Commerce (DOC) in our Ninth Administrative Review. Meanwhile, the Tenth Administrative Review has begun. We expect to hear a final decision on the 9th Administrative Review on February 2, 2022. In this action we have made the claim that since Kingtom is a Chinese owned and operated company and has been caught transshipping Chinese extrusions into the U.S., they should be subject to the duties in our case. In the preliminary decision, the DOC agreed with us. We are confident this ruling ...
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.