One of the things I love about aluminum extrusion is the sheer variety of shapes we can make. Even before a profile is cut, machined, welded, or built into an assembly, it may look nothing like what someone pictures when they hear the word “extrusion.” At the border, it might be described accurately as a machine part, and depending on what’s being imported, it might enter under any number of Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) codes. But the process that made the profile hasn’t changed. Recognizing an extrusion for what it is, even when the paperwork calls it something else, was one of the most important lessons of our training at Custom Aluminum Products. On November 4, AEC and Custom Aluminum hosted the Aluminum Extrusion Identification, Classification, and Trade Law Seminar in Genoa, Illinois. Nearly 100 people registered, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal officials, importers, and customs brokers. We put real ...
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.