United States Subjects Hundreds Of New Derivative Products To Section 232 Metals Tariffs
As Reuters reported, on Aug. 15 the Trump administration “widened the reach” of its Section 232 50 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports “by adding hundreds of derivative products to the list of goods subject to the levies.” Indeed, the U.S. Department of Commerce has added 407 product codes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
The tariffs are now in effect for products that were entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after 12:01 a.m. EDT on Aug. 18, 2025. (According to the Commerce Department, there is no exception for goods already in transit as of that date.) The notice, linked to below, says non-steel and non-aluminum content will be subject to the tariff rates President Donald Trump has imposed on the goods originating from specific countries.
Read the Commerce Department’s Federal Register notice at this link. (The full list of products newly subject to the Section 232 tariffs is available in the annexes to this notice.) Read U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s guidance at this link.
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MSCI consistently has argued that global overcapacity and other unfair trading practices, particularly by China, have harmed the U.S. steel and aluminum markets. To address this circumvention, MSCI has advised federal officials to provide relief for producers up and down the supply chain and to consider the consequences of any new trade policy, including: the economic impact of global overcapacity on the entire domestic metals supply chain; transition times and implementation rules to any new policy; availability of domestic metals to meet U.S. national security needs, as well as general industrial and consumer demand; and trade flows under current free trade agreements, including the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA). MSCI also asked that Canada and Mexico be excluded from any trade penalties.
Click here to review all of MSCI’s advocacy on Section 232 tariffs.