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of Commerce citing unfair trade practices in-
volving China. Working with support from
the U.S. Trade Commission, the team suc-
cessfully maneuvered through the bureau-
cratic processes culminating in an ultimate
decision by the Department of Commerce
to apply duties to extruded product imports
from China. While the team continues to
fight through legal challenges, the outcome
of this action is that, today, such imports are
a trickle of what had been the case in 2009.
“Our industry is largely fragmented, but in
this case we got together and took on some-
thing we saw as a huge threat and that was
bigger than any one of us,” says Crowdis.
“Fortunately, at the end of the day, we helped
level the playing field and avert what could
have been a huge negative impact to the in-
dustry’s future.”
The recent economic downturn which
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