The following was taken in part from the NCBFAA:
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has published a Federal Register notice in which it has proposed to increase Section 232 duties on 14 additional articles made with steel, aluminum, and copper.
These imports include aluminum powder (HTSUS 7603.10.0000), brass-wind musical instruments and their parts and accessories (HTSUS 9205.10.0000 and 9209.99.4080), welding machine and apparatus parts (HTSUS 8515.90.2000), floor safes (HTSUS 8303.00.0000), certain electric conductor cables (HTSUS 8544.49.2000, 8544.49.3040, 8544.49.3080, and 8544.60.4000), fire extinguishers (HTSUS 8424.10.0000), heat exchange unit parts (HTSUS 8419.90.3000), certain hydraulic engine and motor parts (HTSUS 8412.90.9005), as well as certain self-propelled cranes, mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers (HTSUS 8412.90.9005 and HTSUS 8426.41.0090), and various types of trailers (HTSUS 8716.31.00, HTSUS 8716.20.00, HTSUS 8716.40.00, HTSUS 2711.12.0020, HTSUS 2804.40.0000, and HTSUS 2901.22.0000).
Commerce proposes that all these aluminum, steel, and copper derivative products would generally be subject to a Section 232 tariff of 25%, except for cranes, mobile lifting frames, and various trailers which would be subject to a Section 232 tariff of 15%.
More details, including directions for filing comments, are available in the Federal Register notice here.
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