Registration
You are required to register to attend. We need an accurate count to prepare materials in a timely manner. Registrants receive additional details by email as the seminar approaches. Registration closes Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
The seminar
Aluminum Extrusion Identification, Classification, and Trade Law Seminar
Wednesday, November 4, 2026 · Custom Aluminum Products, Genoa, IL 60135 · In person only
Format and audience
One day, in person, no repetition.
Doors open at 8:00 AM CT for welcome and registration. The classroom program runs from 8:15 AM to 3:30 PM, followed by a limited plant tour* of Custom Aluminum Products from 3:30 to 5:00 PM and a free networking reception from 5:00 to 6:00 PM.
This program is structured and open for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials, Homeland Security Investigations, employees of other U.S. Government agencies, licensed customs brokers, and the importers and purchasers who buy aluminum extrusions. The program is not geographically restricted; attendance from outside the Chicago area is encouraged. Participants are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and meal expenses, except for the free shuttle bus. An optional catered lunch can be pre-ordered for $10. Attendance is free for U.S. Government employees.
The seminar is presented by the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC), with technical, commercial, and legal experts representing the aluminum extrusion industry, and aims to increase knowledge of extrusion importations among brokers, importers, purchasers, CBP, and other U.S. Government officials. Everyone benefits when the people involved in the import process understand the product and the specific laws, rules, and regulations that apply to it. The program is narrowed to the aluminum extrusion product universe of HTS Chapter 76 and built around a working extrusion plant. The program is revised for each edition to reflect current classification practice and the trade measures in effect. Because fraud, circumvention, and evasion are a significant problem in aluminum trade, the program devotes a full section to them and to current issues.
What you will be able to do
- Tell an extrusion from a casting by grain structure, and distinguish solid, hollow, and semi-hollow profiles
- Recognize the finished products that hide an extrusion inside, and how they get misdeclared
- Follow the documentary chain from heat number to shipped part, and see which fabrication steps change how a part looks without changing what it is
- Apply the principles of HTS classification under Chapter 76, and tell an extrusion from a further-worked article and a finished good
- Recognize the trade measures that apply to extrusions, including the China antidumping and countervailing duty orders, their exclusions, and the Section 232 downstream wall
- Spot the repeatable evasion patterns and know how a TRLED e-Allegation or EAPA referral becomes a case
* The plant tour is subject to approval by Custom Aluminum Products.
Agenda
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
All times CT. Presented by the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC). The classroom program consists of four sections and no teaching session exceeds 45 minutes; all instruction is scheduled before the plant tour. Parenthetical roles are the discussion leaders. Program subject to refinement as presenters are confirmed.
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM
Welcome and registration
Section 1 — Opening and market perspectives
8:15 AM – 9:00 AM
1A. Introductory overview and aluminum extrusion market perspectives
AEC
- Who the U.S. extrusion industry is and where the presses are
- How extrusion differs from primary and flat-rolled aluminum
- Why classification and origin matter to the revenue and the enforcement mission
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
1B. CBP Base Metals Center of Excellence and Expertise
CBP (invited)
- Remarks to CBP officers and AEC staff from the Base Metals CEE in Chicago, the authoritative center for aluminum classification and uniformity
- How ports refer and coordinate with the Center
Section 2 — Technical: how to know an extrusion
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM
2A. Metallurgy, grain structure, profile geometry, and alloy
AEC
- Grain structure as the forensic difference between extruded and cast
- Solid, hollow, and semi-hollow profiles, and the dies that make them
- The common extrusion alloys and the chemistry-based definition that decides both HTS classification and AD/CVD coverage
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Break
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM
2B. The extrusion production process, traceability, and fabrication
AEC
- Billet to finished profile, step by step: custom production rather than commodity production
- The documentary chain from heat number to shipped part
- Fabrication that changes how a part looks without changing what it is: cutting, machining, welding, anodizing, painting, and kitting
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM
2C. The products that don't look like extrusions, plus a hands-on identification lab
AEC and trade counsel
- Finished-product categories that hide an extrusion inside: automotive, reefer doors, trailer frames, LED lighting, railing and fence kits, heat sinks, ladders, windows and doors, and thresholds
- A hands-on sample lab: real profiles set beside how they would be misdeclared
- The lab uses samples in the classroom, not on the plant floor
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Lunch (pre-ordered catered lunch served on site)
Section 3 — Trade remedies and HTS classification
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM
3A. Trade remedies and enforcement
Trade counsel and CBP
- Special trade measures on aluminum: Section 232, the AD/CVD extrusion order, and forced labor and Section 301 measures
- The basics of antidumping and countervailing duty law
- The TRLED e-Allegation and EAPA processes, and how a referral becomes a case
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM
3B. Principles of HTS classification, Chapter 76
Trade counsel
- General Rules of Interpretation fundamentals applied to aluminum
- The difference between an extrusion, a further-worked article, and a finished good
- Where importers try to move product out of Chapter 76
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Break
Section 4 — Legal, commercial, and enforcement
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM
4A. Scope, the China orders, Section 232, HTS interpretation, and evasion patterns
Trade counsel
- The China AD/CVD orders and their exclusions
- The Section 232 downstream wall
- Why the written scope is dispositive over the HTS chosen, and what CBP can request to verify
- Repeatable evasion patterns: USMCA and maquiladora laundering, misclassification, exclusion abuse, U.S.-origin games, and transshipment
Plant tour and reception
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM
Assemble for the tour and safety briefing
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Plant tour (limited)*
- The extrusion presses
- Fabrication: cutting, punching, drilling, milling, bending, welding, painting, and anodizing
- Kitting
* The plant tour is subject to approval by Custom Aluminum Products. The tour follows a curated route in controlled groups. To protect customer confidentiality, customer-identifying dies, drawings, part numbers, and orders are kept off the tour path, and stations demonstrate general process only. This is why all instruction is scheduled before the tour.
Materials
The seminar manual
Each attendee is provided with a seminar manual containing the presentation materials that presenters release for distribution, plus reference material prepared for the seminar, such as a classification overview and a glossary of aluminum terms.
Each attendee receives the seminar manual in the format chosen at registration. Electronic manuals will be made available to attendees; hardbound manuals are handed out at check-in. Seminar materials are provided only to attendees who are physically present at the program.
Power outlets at the venue are limited. If you choose the electronic manual, arrive with your device charged.
Seminar materials are provided only to attendees who are physically present at the program.
Policies
Registration, refunds, and substitutions
Refunds and cancellations
For paid attendees, the Program's refund/cancellation policy is as follows.
- Attendees who cancel at least 21 days prior to the commencement of the seminar will receive a 100% refund of the materials fees (seminar book) provided in conjunction with the seminar.
- Attendees who cancel less than 21 days prior to the commencement of the seminar but at least 10 days prior to the commencement of the seminar will receive a 50% refund of the materials fees (seminar book) provided in conjunction with the seminar.
- Attendees who cancel less than 10 days prior to the commencement of the seminar, or who are a "no show" for the seminar, will not receive a refund of the materials fees (seminar book) provided in conjunction with the seminar. Seminar materials will be provided only to those attendees who are physically present at the program.
To cancel or substitute an attendee, email scsregistration@wiley.law.
Substitutions
To substitute an attendee, email the original ticket code and the new attendee's name, email, and organization. Government-rate tickets can only be transferred to eligible U.S. Government employees.
Privacy
Registration details (name, email, organization, phone, ticket choices, and dietary needs) are used only to run this seminar: preparing materials, planning the shuttle and lunch, and checking attendees in. Card details are entered on Stripe's secure checkout and never touch this site. Dietary and shuttle information is shared with the caterer and the bus operator. Registration records are kept for one year after the seminar and then deleted. We do not sell or share registration data for marketing.
Questions about any policy: scsregistration@wiley.law.