By: Rick Walker, Vice President, TradeInsights, LCB/CCS

The White House has just issued the annexes including the HTS codes for steel and aluminum derivatives that will be subject to the Section 232 tariffs once CBP is ready to collect tariff revenue on those items.

The annexes are listed below:

STEEL

ALUMINUM

For steel products, there are 155 derivative items in chapter 73, which will face 25% tariffs, unless they are from Turkey; a dozen other items will only owe duties on the steel content in them, and those are either in chapter 84 or 94. The items in those chapters include bulldozer blades, parts of escalators and elevators, backhoe and front-loader attachments, plows, steel shelving, modular steel building units, brass lighting fixtures and other lighting fixtures. Only the steel content used in the manufacture of the derivative article will be subject to the tariffs.

For aluminum products, eighteen of the tariff lines are in Chapter 76, which means the entire value will be subject to the tariff; the other 104 are in chapters 66, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 90, 94, 95 or 96, and only the aluminum content in those goods will face the tariffs.

Note that the Department of Commerce was given 90 days to advise that an adequate system is in place to “fully, efficiently and expediently process and collect the tariffs” for the covered articles. There will be public notification before the tariffs are due on the derivative items.

We will continue to provide updates as they become available.

Please contact your V. Alexander account team, or you may also contact our Trade Compliance team at tradeinsights@valexander.com with any questions