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CBP Reminds Aluminum Importers of End to Grace Period for Smelting Data on June 29

Aluminum importers will have to provide data on country of largest smelt and country of second largest smelt beginning June 29 via the Aluminum Import Monitoring System, CBP said in a CSMS message. That’s when a grace period for the…

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two elements that allowed filers to input “unknown” for the fields will end (see 2105200037), CBP said. “Commerce will begin requiring the requested information for these fields for license applications on or after June 29, 2022, meaning that filers may no longer state ‘unknown’ for these fields after that date,” CBP said. Commerce had delayed collection of the data to give importers and brokers “time to gather required information for the countries of smelt,” CBP said.