After the financial collapse of the U.S. economy and subsequent recession in 2008, the Chinese aluminum extrusion industry set its sights on the U.S. market. Aluminum extrusion imports from China began a meteoric rise that took their U.S. market share from 6 percent to a run rate of 25 percent by mid-2010. The one-two punch of the Great Recession and unrelenting Chinese dumping nearly destroyed the domestic industry, which had no choice but to band together and seek trade protection from these imports. Devil’s Detail 17 provides a brief history of the U.S. Aluminum Extruder Council’s trade case against China.
Devil’s Detail 17: Curtain Wall Coalition
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