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On June 29th, Commerce Department Aluminum Import licensing applications will start requiring both fields of ‘country of largest smelt’ and ‘country of second largest smelt’ to be notated. This new requirement will apply to all imports dealing with aluminum, and no fliers may state ‘unknown’ any longer. It must state the country where the aluminum product was last liquified by heat and cast into a solid state. It also incorporates the country of most recent cast data, a requirement that has been collected since the requirement of aluminum licenses on June 28th, 2021. 

 

Defining the field for the county of smelt for the largest and second-largest volume of primary aluminum is defined as the country where the largest volume of new aluminum metal is produced. The product comes from alumina, or refined aluminum oxide, by the electrolytic Hall-Héroult process. 

 

Commerce stated, “Based on public comments in response to the preliminary rule, it was determined that importers / [customs] brokers would need time to gather required information for the countries of smelt and a grace period was granted for these fields; importers were permitted to indicate “unknown” for one year upon implementation of the regulations.” Because previously the temporary period to allow for license applicants to state ‘unknown’ in the fields for countries of smelt was extended to June 28th. 

 

Commerce confirmed the stay of the regulations entitled “Aluminum Import Monitoring and Analysis System” to be lifted on June 28th, 2021, but extended the temporary delay for compliance with the remaining sections regulating from December 23, 2021, to June 28, 2022. 

 

Just as Sobel is your go-to customs broker, we also want to be your primary resource for these kinds of industry updates. With these new changes coming up soon, it’s important to stay on top of things and ensure that entries are filed with all the required information to avoid charges arising from a delayed customs release after free time has expired. If you have any questions on how to go about this, check out these websites here, here, and here, contact the aluminum licensing office at [email protected], or your Sobel representative today.