Commerce planning aluminum import monitoring system

摘要

The Commerce Department this week said it planned to establish an aluminum import monitoring system that will allow it to watch for import surges and potential transshipments and circumventions of U.S. trade measures. The agency said the system would be modeled on the "Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis" program set up in 2005. It will require that import license applicants identify where aluminum used in "the manufacture of the imported aluminum produced was smelted and poured," according to a proposed rule issued on Wednesday.