TARIFF TRACKER
Commerce creates a Section 232 process to add steel and aluminum derivative tariffs
BIS establishes windows and procedures for requests to add steel and aluminum derivative articles to Section 232 duties. It also removes the prior steel and aluminum exclusions process and GAE supplements from the regulations.
Updated October 12, 2026
STATUS
Ended
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EFFECTIVE
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Section 232
COUNTRIES
All countries
PRODUCT FAMILIES
Steel, Aluminum
COVERED GOODS
Potential future inclusion of additional derivative aluminum and steel articles at the eight- or ten-digit HTSUS level. The rule does not list specific HTS chapters or subheadings.
EXCLUSIONS
The rule removes the Section 232 aluminum and steel exclusions process and removes the General Approved Exclusions supplements for steel and aluminum.
WHAT TO DO (OUR GUIDANCE, NOT LEGAL ADVICE)
Monitor docket BIS-2025-0023 for posted inclusion requests that match your HTSUS classifications and comment within the 14-day window if needed. Producers or industry associations seeking additions should prepare the required 30-page PDF request for the May, September or January submission windows.
SOURCES
Bureau of Industry and Security notice, 90 FR 18780 (May 2, 2025)
Proclamation 11021, 91 FR 18201 (April 9, 2026)
QUOTES FROM THE SOURCE
Rate: "On February 10, 2025, the President issued Proclamation 10895 "Adjusting Imports of Aluminum into the United States", and Proclamation 10896 "Adjusting Imports of Steel into the United States" which imposed a 25 percent ad valorem tariff" (source)
Effective date: "DATES: This rule is effective April 30, 2025. Comments on this interim final rule must be received by BIS no later than June 16, 2025." (source)
Covered goods: "establishes the process for including additional derivative aluminum and steel articles within the scope of the ad valorem duties authorized by the President under Section 232" (source)
Covered goods: "The eight or ten-digit HTSUS designation that serves as the basis for the determination;" (source)
Status: "This IFR also removes the aluminum and steel exclusions process authorized by clause 3 of the March 18, 2018, Presidential Proclamations 9704 and 9705" (source)
Status: "Supplements nos. 2 and 3 are removed because they are no longer needed due to the termination of the Section 232 exclusions process." (source)
Status: "The inclusion processes established pursuant to clause (7) of Proclamation 10895, clause (6) of Proclamation 10896, and clause (3) of Proclamation 10962 are hereby terminated." (source)
End date: "I have hereunto set my hand this second day of April" (source)
Rate: "establishes the process for including additional derivative aluminum and steel articles within the scope of the ad valorem duties authorized by the President under Section 232" (source)
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The BIS interim final rule (effective Apr 30, 2025) created the derivative steel and aluminum inclusions process under Proclamations 10895 and 10896 and imposed no duty itself; Proclamation 11021 terminated those inclusion processes on Apr 2, 2026.
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