Commerce Opens Process for New Additions to Section 232 Auto Parts Tariffs
The Commerce Department will on Jan. 1 begin a two-week window for requests for new products to be included under Section 232 tariffs on auto parts, it said in a notice released Dec. 15. Inclusion requests will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. ET on Jan. 14, after which the agency will post the inclusion requests it receives for comment and begin a 60-day process to consider whether to grant the inclusions.
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The agency had originally said it would begin its first inclusion process for auto parts Oct. 1 (see 2509160029), but never did so amid a government shutdown that lasted over six weeks. Commerce has said it will open inclusion processes four times a year, in January, April, July and October.
Accepted inclusion requests will be posted for the two-week public comment period on docket ITA-2025-0039 on Regulations.gov. For the first round of inclusions for Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum -- the only inclusions process that the administration has completed -- Commerce’s eventual additions to the tariffs took effect about three-and-a-half months after the initial request for submissions.