Below is a list of resources provided by AEC on the Fair Trade Initiative:

• Campaign Updates: AEC provides regular updates on the status of the Fair Trade Initiative.  To view any of the updates since the beginning of the campaign please click here.
  
  
• FAQs: Have a question about the Fair Trade Initiative?  You're not alone!  View the most FAQs about the campaign.
  
  
• Fair Trade...It Matters! Webinar: View the webinar presented by Rand Baldwin, AEC President and Duncan Crowdis, President of Bonnell Aluminum (retired) on September 24, 2013.
  • Fair Trade...It Matters! Webinar Slides: Download the slide presentation from this webinar
    
    
• Shaping Solutions Together Blog: AEC provides a useful resource for the industry featuring various guest authors.
  
  
• Fair Trade Banner Graphic: Download this electronic .jpg file to show your support of the AEC Fair Trade Initiative.  Please note - this banner must be linked to www.aecfairtrade.org

• Fair Trade Timeline: Download this helpful graphic depicting the chronological order of the Fair Trade Tariffs.

China Tariffs Bring 600MM+ Pounds Back to U.S. Extruders

Where would we be without the aluminum extrusion import tariffs?

Note: Chinese share peaked at just over 20% in early 2010. If that share then stabilized at that level in 2012, it would have cost US extruders nearly 800 million pounds, idling as many as 100 presses and thousands of employees; if Chinese share had continued to grow ... the loss would have been even greater. It is fair to say that the tariffs on imported extrusions from China rescued the U.S. aluminum extrusion industry.