https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates Dated log of U.S. tariff measures affecting importers — Section 232, 301, 201 and 122 actions, the Chapter 99 headings they use, and what to do about them. en-us Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#hts-2026-revision-17 https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/hts-2026-revision-17 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT HTS revision The US International Trade Commission published Revision 17 of the 2026 Harmonized Tariff Schedule on 24 August 2026. It added Chapter 99 provisions implementing and suspending additional duties on Canadian goods covering alcoholic beverages, dairy and motor vehicles. Effective from 2026-08-24. What to do: Confirm your broker is filing against the current HTS revision, not a cached copy, before any high-value entry. If you import Canadian alcoholic beverages, dairy or motor vehicles, check the current status of the Chapter 99 lines in this revision — some are implemented and some suspended. Re-check the revision list when a proclamation you are tracking is due to take effect; that is usually when the lines appear. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-201-quartz-surface-products https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-201-quartz-surface-products Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Section 201 A four-year safeguard on quartz surface products took effect on 15 August 2026 following a USITC injury finding. It runs as a tariff-rate quota: 25% on imports inside the annual volume under 9903.45.30, and 50% on everything above it under 9903.45.31. The first-year volume is about 13 million square metres. Effective from 2026-08-15. HTS headings: 9903.45.30, 9903.45.31. What to do: Watch the quarterly quota fill before you book. Arriving after a tranche fills doubles the duty on the same container. Check whether your origin is on the exclusion list before you re-source — several major suppliers are excluded outright. Build the over-quota rate into your worst case rather than the in-quota rate, and revisit as each quota year opens. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-301-forced-labour-60-economies https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-301-forced-labour-60-economies Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Section 301 A Section 301 action tied to forced labour took effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on 24 July 2026, within the hour that the Section 122 surcharge expired. It applies a 10% or 12.5% additional duty depending on the economy, across roughly 60 US trading partners, and it is reported ahead of Section 122, 232 and 201 duties in the Chapter 99 sequence. Effective from 2026-07-24. HTS headings: 9903.05.20-9903.05.84, 9903.05.85-9903.05.92, 9903.06.01-9903.06.21. What to do: Find out which tier each of your sourcing countries is in — the difference between 10% and 12.5% moves a landed cost enough to change a sourcing decision. Check the general and economy-specific exemption blocks before you accept the duty; the exemption lists are long and are easy to miss on a first filing. Ask your broker to confirm the Chapter 99 reporting order on any entry that carries this duty alongside Section 232 or Section 201. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-301-brazil-25-percent https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-301-brazil-25-percent Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Section 301 USTR's Section 301 investigation into Brazil ended in a 25% additional duty on Brazilian-origin goods under 9903.05.01, effective 12:01 a.m. ET on 22 July 2026. The exemption annex is unusually large — roughly 1,200 HTS lines plus about 430 civil-aircraft lines — so the practical scope is much narrower than 'all products of Brazil'. Effective from 2026-07-22. HTS headings: 9903.05.01, 9903.05.02. What to do: Check your Brazilian HTS lines against the exemption annex before assuming a 25% duty — the majority of Brazil's export lines to the US are on it. If you had cargo laden before 22 July 2026, confirm whether the in-transit line was claimed on the entry. Where a product is already dutiable under Section 232, confirm it was not also charged the Section 301 line. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-232-metals-restructure-full-value https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-232-metals-restructure-full-value Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Section 232 A proclamation issued on 2 April 2026 restructured the Section 232 metals programme from 6 April. The biggest change is the base: duty is now assessed on the full customs value of the finished article rather than on its metal content. Products are sorted into annexes at 50%, 25% and 15%, with a weight-based exemption for articles that are barely metal. Effective from 2026-04-06. HTS headings: 9903.82.02, 9903.82.04-9903.82.12, 3701.30.00, 9403.20. What to do: Rebuild your landed-cost model. Duty on full customs value is a much larger number than duty on metal content for anything that is mostly labour, electronics or packaging. For articles that might fall under the 15% metal-weight exemption, get a documented weight breakdown from the supplier and keep it with the entry file. Re-check metal furniture, shelving and racking lines against the June 2026 additions — a lot of importers only found out at liquidation. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-122-balance-of-payments-surcharge https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-122-balance-of-payments-surcharge Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Section 122 Hours after IEEPA collection stopped, a 10% balance-of-payments surcharge took effect under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, reported under 9903.03.01. Section 122 caps any such surcharge at 150 days without an act of Congress, so it expired on 24 July 2026. A widely reported 15% rate was announced but never proclaimed. Effective 2026-02-24 to 2026-07-24. HTS headings: 9903.03.01, 9903.03.02-9903.03.11. What to do: Identify your entries between 24 February and 24 July 2026 that carried the 9903.03.01 line and total the surcharge paid — you will want that figure ready if the appeal produces a refund route. Watch liquidation dates on those entries. Protest deadlines run from liquidation, and an entry that liquidates while the appeal is pending can time out. If a landed-cost model or a supplier quotation from spring 2026 assumed 15%, correct it — the rate was 10% throughout. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#scotus-ieepa-tariffs-struck-down https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/scotus-ieepa-tariffs-struck-down Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT IEEPA In Learning Resources v. Trump, consolidated with Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, the Supreme Court held 6–3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not give the President authority to impose tariffs. CBP stopped collecting IEEPA duties on 24 February 2026, and the Court of International Trade ordered refunds two weeks later. Effective from 2026-02-24. What to do: Pull every entry summary from 4 February 2025 onward and identify the IEEPA duty lines separately from Section 232, 301 and 201 lines — only the IEEPA amounts are refundable. Confirm with your broker that your entries are in CBP's refund processing rather than waiting on a filing from you, and keep the correspondence. Reconcile refunds received against duties paid line by line. Partial refunds are common where an entry carried more than one programme. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-232-semiconductors https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-232-semiconductors Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Section 232 Proclamation 11002 added a Section 232 duty on semiconductors, but the scope is much narrower than the headline suggests. It reaches high-end logic and memory that clear specified performance thresholds — the chips used in AI and data-centre hardware — and leaves ordinary consumer and industrial semiconductors alone. Effective from 2026-01-15. HTS headings: 9903.79.01, 9903.79.03. What to do: Do not assume every semiconductor line is now dutiable — get the part's performance specification and compare it against the thresholds in the proclamation before you re-price. If your chips go into a carved-out end use, keep the evidence for that end use with the entry file. Ask your broker to confirm which of the 9903.79 exception lines applies to your entries rather than defaulting to the dutiable line. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-301-china-exclusions-extended https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-301-china-exclusions-extended Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Section 301 USTR extended 178 product exclusions from the Section 301 China tariffs rather than letting them lapse on 29 November 2025. The 164 product-specific exclusions report under 9903.88.69 and 14 solar manufacturing equipment exclusions under 9903.88.70. The extension runs to 11:59 p.m. EDT on 9 November 2026. Effective 2025-11-30 to 2026-11-09. HTS headings: 9903.88.69, 9903.88.70. What to do: Read the exclusion description against your actual product specification, not against the HTS line — the descriptions are narrower than the classifications they sit under. Check entries filed between 29 November and the CBP guidance date to see whether the exclusion was claimed. Plan for 9 November 2026 now. If you rely on one of these exclusions, model your landed cost without it. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-232-trucks-and-buses https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-232-trucks-and-buses Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Section 232 Proclamation 10984 put a 25% Section 232 duty on medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in Classes III to VIII and their parts, plus 10% on buses, for goods entered on or after 1 November 2025. USMCA-qualifying content can enter at zero on the parts line. Effective from 2025-11-01. HTS headings: 9903.74.01, 9903.74.02, 9903.74.08, 9903.74.09, 9903.74.10. What to do: Confirm which programme your parts fall under — commercial-truck parts and passenger-vehicle parts carry different Chapter 99 headings and different rates. If your trucks or parts qualify under USMCA, ask your broker about the zero-rate parts line and the non-US content procedure Commerce opened in February 2026. Keep bills of material and origin evidence for each part number; the content-based relief needs it. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-232-timber-lumber-furniture https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-232-timber-lumber-furniture Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Section 232 Proclamation 10976 opened a new Section 232 programme covering softwood timber and lumber at 10%, upholstered wooden furniture at 25% and kitchen cabinets and vanities at 25%, effective 14 October 2025. Increases scheduled for 1 January 2026 were later pushed back a full year. Effective from 2025-10-14. HTS headings: 9903.76.01, 9903.76.02, 9903.76.03, 9903.76.20, 9903.76.21, 9903.76.22. What to do: Put 1 January 2027 in your planning calendar if you import upholstered wooden furniture, kitchen cabinets or vanities — the deferred increases are still on the books. Check whether your furniture is classified as upholstered wooden furniture or as another furniture line; the Chapter 99 line follows the classification, not the marketing description. If you buy from the UK, Japan or the EU, confirm your entries are claiming the capped country line rather than the general rate. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#bis-407-derivative-inclusions https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/bis-407-derivative-inclusions Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Section 232 The Bureau of Industry and Security ran its inclusions process and added 407 product categories to the Section 232 steel and aluminium derivative lists. Duties on the new categories applied from 12:01 a.m. EDT on 18 August 2025, with no exemption for cargo already in transit. Effective from 2025-08-18. What to do: Diary the BIS inclusions windows and check each published list against your own HTS lines — this is the single most common way importers get surprised by a metals duty. Ask your broker to set an alert on your top HTS lines so a new inclusion is caught before the entry is filed rather than after liquidation. Keep content declarations on file for articles that are not yet covered; if an inclusion lands, you can file correctly from day one. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-232-copper-50-percent https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-232-copper-50-percent Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Section 232 Proclamation 10962 added copper to the Section 232 programme at 50%, effective 1 August 2025. The duty falls on semi-finished copper products and copper-intensive derivatives, and it is assessed on the copper content value. Refined cathode, anode, ore, concentrate, matte and scrap are explicitly outside the scope. Effective from 2025-08-01. HTS headings: 9903.78.01, 9903.78.02. What to do: Separate your copper lines into raw forms and semi-finished or fabricated forms — only the second group is dutiable here. Get a copper content value per article from the mill so the entry can use the paired copper and non-copper lines. If you import fittings, connectors or assemblies with copper components, ask your broker whether the derivative annex reaches them. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-232-metals-50-percent https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-232-metals-50-percent Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Section 232 Proclamation 10947 raised the Section 232 rate on steel and aluminium from 25% to 50% for goods entered on or after 12:01 a.m. EDT on 4 June 2025. The United Kingdom stayed at 25% under the US–UK Economic Prosperity Deal. Derivative articles moved with the base metals. Effective from 2025-06-04. HTS headings: 9903.81.87, 9903.85.02. What to do: Re-price any open quotation that carried a 25% metals assumption — the duty line on a steel- or aluminium-intensive article roughly doubled overnight. Chase the content declarations again. At 50%, an article declared at full value instead of metal content costs materially more. Check whether a UK-origin option exists for the same article before you re-source; the 25% rate is a real difference on metal-heavy goods. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-232-autos-and-parts https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-232-autos-and-parts Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT Section 232 Proclamation 10908 put a 25% Section 232 duty on imported passenger vehicles and light trucks from 3 April 2025, and extended it to auto parts from 3 May 2025. Vehicles report under 9903.94.01 and parts under 9903.94.05. Later trade arrangements cut the rate for several partners, but each one started on its own date. Effective from 2025-04-03. HTS headings: 9903.94.01, 9903.94.05. What to do: If you imported vehicles or parts from the UK, the EU, Japan or Korea before the guidance for that arrangement landed, check whether the entry was liquidated at the higher rate. A post-summary correction is possible while an entry is unliquidated; after liquidation you have 180 days to file a protest. Ask your broker to check the dates before the window closes. For parts, confirm the article is classified in the parts annex rather than the vehicle line — the two carry different Chapter 99 headings. https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates#section-232-steel-aluminum-25-percent https://airliftusa.com/tariff-updates/section-232-steel-aluminum-25-percent Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Section 232 Proclamations 10895 and 10896 reset the Section 232 metals programme. Steel and aluminium both went to 25%, and the country arrangements that had spared Argentina, Australia, Canada, Mexico, the EU and the UK were terminated. A long list of downstream derivative products was pulled into the same duty for the first time. Effective from 2025-03-12. HTS headings: 9903.81.87, 9903.81.88, 9903.81.89, 9903.81.90, 9903.81.91, 9903.81.92, 9903.81.93, 9903.85.02, 9903.85.04, 9903.85.07, 9903.85.08, 9903.85.09. What to do: Pull your last twelve months of entries and flag every line in Chapters 72, 73 and 76, plus anything with a metal housing, frame, fitting or fastener. Ask each supplier for a written steel or aluminium content value per article, and for the country of melt and pour or smelt and cast. Where the metal was melted and poured or smelted and cast in the United States, ask your broker whether the zero-rate derivative line applies to your entry.