Commerce to Begin Accepting Requests to Add Auto Parts to 232 Tariffs on July 1
The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration will begin accepting requests July 1 to include additional auto parts under 25% Section 232 tariffs on imports, it said in a news release June 24. The 14-day submission window will be one of four per year when Commerce accepts inclusion requests, in January, April, July and October, it said.
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As mandated in President Donald Trump’s March 26 proclamation imposing the tariffs on autos and auto parts (see 2503260077), Commerce will have 60 days to consider each request. The agency will consider “whether the product is an auto part article and whether increased imports of the article threaten to impair national security or Section 232 automobile tariff objectives,” the release said.
Inclusion requests will be submitted through regulations.gov, and must include information about the applicant and the domestic industry, a description of the requested auto part and why it is an auto part, and an 8- or 10-digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule classification requested for the subject part. Requests also must include statistics on imports and domestic production, as well as a “description of how and to what extent imports of the article have increased in a manner that threatens to impair national security or undermine Section 232 automobile tariff objectives.” Commerce said it soon will publish a notice on the auto part inclusion process in the Federal Register.
The March 26 proclamation said any new auto parts that Commerce decides to include under the process must also be published in the Federal Register, within 14 days of the decision to include them, and that the tariffs will begin to apply at 12:01 a.m. ET the day after the notice is published.