Aluminum Licensing Requirements Now Take Effect June 28, CBP Says

The Commerce Department will delay a requirement for aluminum import licenses under its new Aluminum Import Monitoring System until June 28, CBP said in a CSMS message sent March 29. “At the request of the Department of Commerce the [Aluminum Import Monitoring] license requirement has been delayed until June 28, 2021,” CBP said. “We have updated ACE to remove the LPC requirement.”

The licensing scheme had been set to take effect March 29, before Commerce announced it would delay the effective date, in a message on its website. Commerce will soon publish a Federal Register notice formally pushing back the effective date, it said. “This delay means that licenses will not be required for covered aluminum product imports beginning on March 29, 2021,” Commerce said.

Similar to a licensing scheme already in place for steel imports, the aluminum monitoring system will require importers of aluminum or their customs brokers to submit information in an online portal to obtain an automatically issued license, then to submit the license number on the entry summary or foreign-trade zone admission (see 2012220033). The Biden administration delayed the rule from taking effect in January (see 2101250020).