Events are unfolding rapidly in the Dominican Republic. During our Annual Meeting last March, we discussed the Work Release Order (WRO) we filed based on the explosive report from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from their onsite inspection at the Kingtom facility in the Dominican Republic last fall. In that report, Customs officials claim they received about 50 notes and texts from Dominican workers at the plant about worker abuse. Just as we were prepared to kick off a massive public relations campaign to inform D.C. about our WRO, news surfaced that the Dominican government has closed Kingtom due to worker abuse. Wow! This unexpected development has helped us achieve our objective of stopping illegal and unfair trade activities from Kingtom. Even so, we are following this closely on the ground and will still demand our government address our WRO and find in our favor. We do not want to be dependent upon the Dominican government in 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.