Brazil sets 2021 aluminium import quota at 262,000 tonnes

Brazil's duty-free import quota for unalloyed aluminium for 2021 will be 262,000 tonnes, as decided by the executive management committee (Gecex) of the foreign trade chamber (Camex) on Monday December 21.

The quota will be in effect from January 1, 2021 and expire on December 31.
The country permits a limited volume of aluminium imports exempt from 6% duties due to insufficient domestic ingot production. The 2020 quota was depleted in early November.

In 2020, Brazil initially authorized 150,000 tonnes of duty-free imports for the first half of the year. It then decided to extend that deadline...

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