Trade enforcement continues to be a top priority for AEC, and we have several important activities underway. On November 4, AEC will host the Aluminum Extrusion Identification, Classification and Trade Law Seminar for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Custom Aluminum Products in Genoa, Illinois. This will be our first CBP training seminar since 2017, and it’s an important opportunity to help educate enforcement officials on the wide variety of shapes, forms and applications of aluminum extrusions. As we all know, extrusions don’t always look like extrusions, particularly once they’ve been fabricated or incorporated into other products. Helping CBP understand these differences is critical to the continued enforcement of the China I AD/CVD orders and the Administration’s broader trade policies. I want to thank Custom Aluminum and everyone involved in making this training possible. I also want to thank everyone who attended our recent Fall Management Conference. We had some...
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.