Section 232 Tracker

The rate rarely changes.
The scope always does.

Section 232 grows sideways. Derivative products join the lists on a submission cycle, so a part that was outside scope last quarter can be inside it this one with no new tariff announced. A working view of every action and every open investigation.

Last reviewed and updated September 20, 2026 · checked against the controlling proclamations and Federal Register notices
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Since Apr 6, 2026 Full customs
value

The duty is on the whole article now, not its metal content

Proclamation 11021 rebuilt the steel, aluminum and copper regime effective April 6, 2026. Duty applies to the full customs value of the imported product regardless of metal content, rates are set by which annex a product sits in rather than by which metal it contains, and entries route through the 9903.82 heading family. The same clause terminated the derivative-inclusions submission windows: there is no next window, and additions now come by Federal Register notice at any time. An entry process built for the old regime is computing duty on the wrong base.

What Section 232 covers

Grouped by product family, because Section 232 is a product-scope regime: what matters is whether your goods are on a list. Each card carries two statuses and they are independent by design. The first pill is what you need to do. The second is what the duty itself is doing. They routinely disagree, and an investigation with no tariff attached can need more from you this quarter than a duty already being collected.

Steel, Aluminum & Copper

Act Now In Force
The oldest and widest Section 232 action, and the one that was rebuilt from the ground up on April 6, 2026. Proclamation 11021 moved the duty onto the full customs value of the article rather than its metal content, replaced the flat per-metal rates with annex-based tiers, and terminated the derivative inclusions process. Proclamation 11032 adjusted the tiers again from June 8, 2026. Since September 14, 2026, ACE rejects copper wire and cable entry summaries filed without country of smelt and country of cast, and since September 15, 2026 the 50 percent Section 338 duty on listed Canadian goods applies on top of Section 232 rather than instead of it.
Chapter 99 Subchapter III, the 9903.82 heading family
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Autos, Parts & Trucks

Act Now In Force
Duties on passenger vehicles, light trucks and auto parts are in force, with medium and heavy trucks added later on their own terms. This action carries an offset mechanism tied to domestic assembly, and a U.S.-content filing that decides whether a USMCA-qualifying vehicle is dutiable on its full value or only on its non-U.S. content.
Passenger vehicles, light trucks, auto parts, medium and heavy trucks
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Timber, Lumber & Furniture

Act Now In Force
Timber and lumber duties came with a set of downstream products attached: upholstered wooden furniture, kitchen cabinets and vanities. This is the Section 232 action that reaches consumer goods rather than industrial inputs. Since September 15, 2026 the Section 232 carve-out from the 50 percent Section 338 duty on Canadian goods reaches only the dairy list, so a Canadian-origin vanity under 9403.60.80 now pays both, and the classification question on the boundary has changed direction.
Softwood timber and lumber, upholstered wooden furniture, kitchen cabinets and vanities
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Semiconductors & Technology

Act Now In Force
Four separate investigations at three different stages, and two of them are now collecting duty. Drones have carried 100 and 25 percent since September 3, 2026 under Proclamation 11055, and advanced computing chips have carried 25 percent since January 15, 2026 under Proclamation 11002. Polysilicon attaches on December 4, 2026. Semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and robotics and industrial machinery, remain open with no instrument.
Semiconductors and manufacturing equipment, polysilicon, drones, robotics and industrial machinery
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Pharmaceuticals & Medical

Act Now In Force
Pharmaceuticals and their ingredients on one track, personal protective equipment and medical consumables on another. The pharmaceutical duties are being collected: 100 percent on patented product and its active ingredients since July 31, 2026 for the companies in Annex III, extending to every other company on September 29, 2026. PPE and medical consumables remain an open investigation.
Pharmaceuticals and ingredients, personal protective equipment and medical consumables
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Critical Minerals, Wind & Aerospace

Prepare Under Review
Processed critical minerals and their derivative products, wind turbines and their components, and aircraft and jet engines. These sit further from most members' entries than the metals or vehicle actions, but the critical minerals proceeding carries a derivatives concept wide enough to reach ordinary manufactured goods if a measure follows. Two of the three now have a presidential determination on the record with no tariff attached.
Processed critical minerals and derivatives, wind turbines and components, aircraft and jet engines
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Process, not product

Three things change a member's Section 232 position without any rate moving. None of them belong to a product family, so they sit outside the grid.

Inclusions

Windows terminated

The submission windows that added derivative products ended on April 6, 2026. Commerce and the Trade Representative may now add derivatives jointly at any time, by Federal Register notice, with no calendar.

Exclusions

Not the mechanism

The product exclusion process that importers used in the early years of this action is not how relief works today. Anyone planning around a filed exclusion should confirm its current status before relying on it.

Stacking

Set for you

Where a good is covered by Section 232 and another remedy, the order and combination are set by executive order and CBP guidance. It is a valuation question, and it is not the filer’s choice.

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Every source behind this page

Proclamations, Federal Register notices and BIS inclusion decisions, filed as they are published and never edited afterwards, alongside the sources behind the USMCA and Section 301 trackers. If a status on this page changed, the document that changed it is in the library.

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This tracker is researched and maintained by Heather Tschirhart, who leads ICPA’s trade research and data work.

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