There has been a lot of activity on the trade front over the past several weeks, much of it directly relevant to aluminum extruders. From the latest review of the China aluminum extrusion orders to a new White House focus on transshipment, enforcement continues to be a major theme. We’ll start with the issue closest to home. On August 17, the U.S. Department of Commerce published the final results of its 2024–2025 antidumping duty administrative review of aluminum extrusions from China. The review covers the period from May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025. Commerce determined that all 18 companies under review failed to demonstrate that they qualified for a separate antidumping rate. As a result, they remain part of the China-wide entity and subject to the 86.01 percent China-wide antidumping rate. Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess that rate on subject entries from those companies during the review period. The fin...
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.