Inclusions to the Section 232
National Security Adjustments to Automobile Parts Imports
New
collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)
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Emergency
06/27/2025
06/27/2025
Requested
Previously Approved
6 Months From Approved
200
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1,600
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48,304
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On March 26, 2025, the President
issued Proclamation 10908, “Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and
Automobile Parts Into the United States,” (Automobile Proclamation)
which finds that imports of automobiles and certain automobile
parts continue to threaten to impair the national security of the
United States and imposes specified tariffs to adjust imports of
automobiles and certain automobile parts so that such imports will
not threaten to impair national security pursuant to Section 232 of
the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (“Section 232”). Section 232
authorizes the President to adjust the imports of an article and
its derivatives that are being imported into the United States in
such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten to
impair the national security of the United States so that such
imports will not threaten to impair national security. The
Automobile Proclamation imposed a 25 percent tariff on certain
imports of automobiles, effective April 3, 2025, and certain
imports of automobile parts, effective May 3, 2025. The Automobile
Proclamation also required the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to
establish a process for including additional automobile parts
articles within the scope of the tariffs imposed by the President
in the Automobile Proclamation. In addition to inclusions made by
the Secretary, the process is to provide for including additional
automobile parts articles at the request of a domestic producer of
an automobile or automobile parts article, or an industry
association representing one or more such producers, where the
request establishes that imports of additional automobile parts
articles have increased in a manner that threatens to impair the
national security or otherwise undermines the objectives set forth
in any proclamation issued pursuant to the Secretary’s February 17,
2019 report under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962,
as amended (Section 232) or any additional information submitted to
the President by the Secretary pursuant to those proclamations.
When the Secretary receives such a request from a domestic producer
or industry association, the Secretary, after consultation with the
United States International Trade Commission and United States
Customs and Border Protection, is to issue a determination
regarding whether to include the articles within 60 days of
receiving the request. Any additional automobile parts articles
that the Secretary has determined to be included within the scope
of the tariffs described in the Automobile Proclamation are to be
so included on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time the day
after a notice in the Federal Register describing the Secretary’s
determination. The notice in the Federal Register is to be made as
soon as practicable but no later than 14 days after the Secretary’s
determination. The International Trade Administration (ITA), in
this interim final rule (IFR), establishes the process for
including additional automobile parts articles within the scope of
the tariffs imposed by the President in the Automobile
Proclamation.
If approval is not
granted for use of these documents, this will hinder Commerce’s
ability to fulfill the directives of the President in Proclamation
10908. This directive is driven by urgent national security
concerns, as the President has determined imports of automobiles
and automobile parts are a threat to U.S. national security. Timely
implementation of this process is critical to addressing this
threat. In Proclamation 10908, the President required the Secretary
to establish a process for including additional automobile parts
within the scope of the tariffs. This is necessary to ensure that
all automobile parts are subject to the scope of the Section 232
remedy if their importation threatens to impair the national
security of the United States.
US Code:
19
USC 1862 Name of Law: Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of
1962, as amended
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Auto Parts Inclusion Application