As you have been following for several months now, the AEC has been engaged in several legal battles with Kingtom, the Chinese owned and operated extrusion plant in the Dominican Republic. To date, three separate EAPA filings have been made, and all have been successful. Now, the legal arena has moved to our Annual Administrative Review in both our anti-dumping (AD) and subsidy (CVD) cases. Just last week the Department of Commerce (DOC) issued its preliminary decision in this year’s review. Commerce issued its preliminary results in the AD case on July 30. Kingtom, the sole mandatory respondent, received the 86.01% China-wide rate, as did the other 84 companies for which we did not rescind our administrative review request. In the CVD case, Kingtom and two other companies received the 242.15% China-wide rate, and three companies received the 16.08% ‘all others’ rate. Until Kingtom can prove to the DOC that all exports from its operation consist of extrusions produced in the Do
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.