Bipartisan Letter Asks Commerce to Carefully Review Aluminum Extruders' AD/CVD Petition

A bipartisan group of senators is supporting trade remedy petitions filed by the U.S. Aluminum Extruders Coalition, which seek antidumping and countervailing duty measures on aluminum extrusion imports from 14 countries, it told the commerce secretary.

Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Mike Braun, R-Ind., led a letter, which included two more Republicans, eight Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who caucuses with Democrats. Brown publicized the letter April 22.

They wrote: "The investigations cover imports of aluminum extrusions from China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam. From 2019 to 2022, foreign imports from these countries increased by more than forty percent, causing American producers’ share of the market to fall by eleven percent. The Coalition employs thousands of workers -- many represented by USW -- across twenty states in the aluminum extrusion industry, many of whom are already seeing the harm caused in reduced shifts, workforce downsizing, and idling extrusion presses."