CBP Updates Guidance to Remove Erroneously Listed HTS Numbers for Steel and Aluminum Tariffs
CBP updated its recent guidance on Section 232 tariffs to remove tariff schedule numbers that had apparently been erroneously included as subject to steel and aluminum tariffs.
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The update follows confusion last week over the apparent addition of the subheadings, which were included in attachments to CSMS messages sent June 3 but weren't included in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule or the relevant presidential proclamation that increased Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum to 50% (see 2506060039).
CBP said it updated the guidance "to be consistent with the annexes to the June 3, 2025, Proclamation published in the Federal Register at 90 FR 24199, on June 9, 2025."
As published, the proclamation also didn't include the subheadings under lists of goods subject to a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum from the U.K.
The updated CSMS message also added back three tariff subheadings that the original guidance had removed from the list of subheadings subject to Section 232 tariffs. Those tariff numbers had never been removed from the tariff schedule.