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Aluminum Smelt and Cast

Proclamation 10522 has been issued that requires new Aluminum Smelt and Cast Requirements for importers for shipments into the United States. These new data elements are required on the Entry Summary and guidance from CBP has been provided in CSMS 55438432. Please review these two documents to see if any of your products fall under the new reporting requirements (CSMS 55701614).
If your system has been configured for it, the “Aluminum Smelt and Cast” action button can be used to report the items that are subject to aluminum reporting requirements for US Imports. Specifically, you will be able to add in the Primary and Secondary Country of Smelt as well as the Country of Cast. This data can then be fed on to our USABI self-filing solution to send directly on your Entry Summary filing or can be configured to send to a broker for broker filing with USCBP.
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The
System Messages
 tab may display which lines might require aluminum report.
  1. Click
    Aluminum Smelt and Cast
     on the top right of the screen to open the pop-up.
  2. Check the boxes of the entry lines you want to apply the data to.
  3. Hover your cursor to the
    Action
     option and click
    Aluminum Smelt and Cast Requirements
    .
  4. A pop-up will appear that alerts you that data will be applied. Click
    OK
     if you wish to proceed.
  5. The
    User Input
     pop-up will appear. On the column
    Input
    , use the dropdowns to select a country to each of the messages described below.
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    You must click directly inside the input field to make the country dropdown visible. If the dropdown does not appear, click the input field again to activate it.
    Messages
    Action
    Primary Country of Smelt
    • Report the country where the largest volume of new aluminum metal is produced from alumina (or aluminum oxide) by the electrolytic Hall-Héroult process.
    • Filers may report “
      N
      /A” for the primary country of smelt if the product contains only secondary aluminum and no primary aluminum. Secondary aluminum is defined as aluminum metal that is produced from recycled aluminum scrap through a re-melting process.
    • Products of the U.S. are not covered by the countries of smelt reporting requirements. Until further notice, for products of the U.S., filers may report “
      N
      /A” for the countries of smelt.
    Secondary Country of Smelt
    • Report the country where the second largest volume of new aluminum metal is produced from alumina (or aluminum oxide) by the electrolytic Hall-Héroult process.
    • If Russia is not the country reported for the primary country of smelt, and any primary aluminum used in the manufacture of the product was smelted in Russia, report the ISO code for Russia as the secondary country of smelt.
    • Filers may report “
      N
      /A” for the secondary country of smelt if the product contains only secondary aluminum and no primary aluminum. Secondary aluminum is defined as aluminum metal that is produced from recycled aluminum scrap through a re-melting process.
    • Products of the U.S. are not covered by the countries of smelt reporting requirements. Until further notice, for products of the U.S., filers may report “
      N
      /A” for the countries of smelt.
    Country of Cast
    • Report the country where the aluminum (with or without alloying elements) was last liquified by heat and cast into a solid state. The final solid state can take the form of either a semi-finished product (slab, billets or ingots) or a finished aluminum product.
    • Products of the U.S. are not covered by the cast reporting requirements. Until further notice, for products of the U.S., filers may report US for country of cast.
  6. Click
    Save
     when all three fields are filled out.
After saving the input, a successful message is displayed, and the countries are displayed in the grid.
You will be able to edit the Aluminum Smelt and Cast data before shipments are in a Processed status. One in Processed status, the data will be viewable but read only. Click
Undo Shipment Processing
 if changes need to be made to this data.
You can download your
Aluminum Smelt and Cast Requirements
 entry lines in an Excel spreadsheet by clicking the action button
Extract
.

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