White House Announces Process to Request Exclusions from Steel and Aluminum Tariffs (From Sandler Travis)
The Bureau of Industry and Security has announced the process for individuals and organizations to request exclusions from the additional tariffs President Trump recently ordered on imports of steel and aluminum. The tariffs of 25 percent and 10 percent, respectively, are scheduled to take effect March 23.
Who may request. Only individuals or organizations using the affected steel or aluminum articles in business activities (e.g., construction, manufacturing, or supplying steel product or aluminum product to users) in the U.S. may submit exclusion requests. Any individual or organization in the U.S. may file objections to exclusion requests.
Timeline. Exclusion requests may be submitted at any time and the review period normally will not exceed 90 days.
Criteria for exclusions. An exclusion will only be granted if an article is not produced in the U.S. in a sufficient and reasonably available amount or in a satisfactory quality, or for a specific national security consideration.
Scope of exclusions. Approved exclusions will be made on a product basis and will be limited to the individual or organization that submitted the request unless BIS approves a broader application to additional importers. Other individuals or organizations that wish to submit an exclusion request for a product already approved for exclusion may do so. In addition, exclusion requests may be submitted even if a previous request for the same product was denied or is no longer valid. Approved exclusions will be effective five business days after publication of the BIS response on regulations.gov and will generally be approved for one year. For more info, please go to
https://www.strtrade.com/news-news-steel-aluminum-tariff-exclusion-request-process-031618.html
No change to steel and aluminum articles subject to the new tariffs
To date, we have received no word of changes to the articles subject to this new tariff as we reported in our newsletter on March 9. We repeat them here for your convenience.
Steel articles are defined as those which are classified under HTSUS 7206.10 through 7216.50 (including ingots, bars, rods and angles), 7216.99 through 7301.10 (including bars, rods, wire, ingots, and sheet piling), 7302.10 (rails), 7302.40 through 7302.90 (including plates and sleepers), and 7304.10 through 7360.90 (including tubes, pipes and hollow profiles). Aluminum products are defined as unwrought aluminum (HTS 7601); aluminum bars, rods, and profiles (HTS 7604); aluminum wire (HTS 7605); aluminum plate, sheet, strip and foil (flat rolled products) (HTS 7606 and 7606); aluminum tubes and pipes and tube and pipe fittings (HTS 7608 and 7609); and aluminum castings and forgings (HTS 7616.99.5160 and 7616.99.51.70).
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