The licenses for an additional 30,000 tonnes of duty-free aluminium imports that were added to the annual quota by the authorities in Brazil have already been completely used by the industry, Fastmarkets heard on Tuesday November 10.
"The additional 30,000-tonne quota is, indeed, exhausted for new import licenses at the moment," a spokesperson for the foreign trade and international affairs secretariat of the country's ministry of economy said.Interested parties were able to apply for new import licenses for as much as 30,000 tonnes from November 3. In...