Aluminum Association welcomes USITC’s decision on aluminium foil imports from five countries

The Aluminum Association applauded USITC’s decision unanimous preliminary determination that certain aluminium foil imports from Armenia, Brazil, Oman, Russia, and Turkey are causing injury to U.S. producers. 

The U.S. Department of Commerce will now continue to conduct antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on aluminium foil imports. 

The Commerce Department’s preliminary countervailing duty into imports from Oman and Turkey are currently due to be completed on December 23, 2020. The Commerce’s preliminary antidumping duty from all five countries is currently due to be completed on March 8, 2021.  

“The Aluminum Association and its members are encouraged by today’s unanimous preliminary finding,” said Tom Dobbins, President & CEO of the Aluminum Association.  “After successfully petitioning for unfair trade orders on imported aluminum foil from China in 2018, U.S. foil producers were unfortunately confronted by a second surge of unfairly-traded imports from these countries. Today’s decision is the first step in restoring fair conditions to the U.S. foil market.”   

“Today’s affirmative preliminary decision by the ITC is an important first step in remedying the devastating injury that the flood of unfairly-traded imports of certain aluminum foil from the subject countries have had on domestic producers,” commented John Herrmann, of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, counsel to the domestic industry.  

Aluminium foil imports from the five subject countries rose by nearly 110 percent between 2017 and 2019 and accounted for 43.7 percent of total U.S. imports in 2019.  The total value in 2019 was $281.4 million.

The certain aluminium foil that is subject to investigation includes all imports from these countries that is 0.2 mm or less in thickness  in reels weighing more than 25 pounds.