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Key Trade Issues to be Addressed Soon

 Those of you that follow our case closely know that much of our effort in recent years has focused on scope issues and trade enforcement.  For quite some time we have enjoyed a fair-trade relationship with China. By this I mean the Federal Government of the United States has established anti-dumping and countervailing duties that total approximately 100%.  Since the implementation of these orders, traditional imports of aluminum extrusions from China have held at less than 1% of our market.  Contrast this with the high level of activity we have seen in our case centering on which extrusions should be excluded from the duties and defending our borders against circumvention and transshipment. One disturbing new development we had to confront is the introduction of a Chinese owned and operated facility in the Dominican Republic.  Since its opening, members across the southeast United States have seen this operation make many attempts to penetrate our market.  Earlier this year two claims