Over the last few weeks, we have been working with our legal team to prepare for our Sunset Review. We are now at a place where we need your help! Later this month we will host a webinar to unveil this Review’s templates to capture our production and sales records. The templates are essentially unchanged from our last review. So, I don’t expect a lot of confusion about the data we need, but it does represent a lot of work! This Sunset Review could be much more challenging than our 2017 filing. Our industry is strong. Demand is up, lead times have been extended, and there have been huge investments made in plants, equipment, and people over the last ten years. By some measure, it could be claimed that we are healthy and strong and ready to take on China without the duties. However, we all know this is a ridiculous conclusion. Instead, we will want to argue that the only reason our industry has recovered and prospered is the fact that the orders were in place, effective, and gav
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.