Aluminum Import Monitoring (AIM) Requirements go into Effect

Effective June 29, all U.S. Department of Commerce aluminum import licensing applications will require reporting of “country of largest smelt” and “country of second largest smelt,” bringing an end to the grace period during which importers were permitted to indicate "unknown" in these fields. Commerce defines the field for the country of smelt for the largest (and second largest) volume of primary aluminum as the country where the largest volume of new aluminum metal is produced from alumina (refined aluminum oxide) by the electrolytic Hall-Héroult process.

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