Over the last few weeks, the U.S. aluminum extrusion members in the AEC have been providing data to our legal team at Wiley Law. Wiley has pulled the numbers together, and we are ready to update the members involved in the process. To no one’s surprise, our industry continues to suffer escalating injury due to imports. Now, having data through the third quarter of 2022, our next task will be to collect the fourth quarter’s data, too. Everyone expects that data to validate a continuing deterioration in the domestic injury’s share of U.S. demand. So, what is next? The AEC will host a webinar on January 27th at 11 AM Central Time. This meeting is for U.S. AEC Extruder Members only , and they can register for the event here . In parallel to our efforts investigating a possible new trade case, we have been in ongoing discussions with the Department of Commerce (DOC) seeking the reinstatement of the Aluminum 232 extrusion tariffs. At this point, feedback from the DOC has been favor
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.