The fair-trade efforts of the United States aluminum extrusion industry have certainly changed in 2023. A year ago today, AEC members were evaluating their best strategy to address illegal and unfairly imported extrusions. Having exhausted every effort through legislation, agency work, defense of our China orders, and so much more, aluminum extruders came together to form the Aluminum Extruders Coalition. This group of heroic extruders took the bold step to form and file a trade case . That case was filed against 15 countries. In all cases an antidumping case was filed, and in four of those cases there was also a countervailing subsidy case filed. That filing has shocked the world. As the trade case moved from concept and planning to launching and filing, a lot of work was being done to be as inclusive in this process as possible. The more voices the Coalition had the more input available to make our case. Furthermore, these filings ...
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.