Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that details in writing on the South Korean and Japanese trade deals will come in "kind of weeks."
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CBP created Harmonized System Update 2532 on Aug. 17, containing 52 Automated Broker Interface records and 21 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2532 includes Executive Order Section 232 Additional Aluminum and Steel Inclusion Product Updates, effective Aug. 18, and miscellaneous tariff adjustments required by verification of the 2025 Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
CBP provided guidance on the additional goods subject to Section 232 tariffs for steel and aluminum derivatives. The Aug. 15 guidance followed an announcement of the tariff inclusions earlier in the day (see 2508150063).
Tariffs on steel, chips and semiconductors will come into effect by next week or the week after, President Donald Trump said on Aug. 15.
Some companies and associations in the solar industry endorsed additional tariffs on Chinese polysilicon, but others expressed concern that allied countries will be hit with overlapping Section 232 tariffs on both imports of polysilicon and solar cells, in public comments to the Bureau of Industry and Security.
Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum derivatives, currently set at 50%, will cover 407 additional Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 18, the Commerce Department said in a notice released late on Aug. 15. The notice includes no exception for goods in transit as of the effective date.
The Commerce Department will add 407 Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes to the lists of steel and aluminum derivatives subject to Section 232 tariffs, the agency said in a notice released late Aug. 15. Tariffs on the new additions take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Aug. 18, 2025.
The Coalition for Prosperous America is proposing that a Section 232 investigation on polysilicon result in a tariff-rate quota that is limited to "in-quota trusted suppliers" such as South Korea or Germany, and that excludes Chinese products. A "$0.10 per watt tariff" should apply to over-quota imports of solar cells, with a quota volume "tied to U.S. production capacity" and overseen by the Department of Energy, it said in public comments.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 4-10: