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CSMS # 62582900 - GUIDANCE: Section 232 Melt and Pour Requirements
The purpose of this message is to provide clarification and additional information on the melt and pour requirements in CSMS #62095799, “Section 232 Additional Duties on Certain Steel Imports from Mexico” for all steel imports.
GUIDANCE
On July 10, 2024, Proclamation 10783 (Adjusting Imports of Steel Into the United States, 89 FR 57347) imposed an additional 25 percent ad valorem tariff on certain imported steel articles and derivative steel articles that are products of Mexico. Proclamation 10783 also provided for the following melt and pour requirements on imported steel and derivative steel articles.
For purposes of implementing the melt and pour requirements in this and other proclamations, importers of steel and steel derivative articles shall provide to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) the information necessary to identify the countries where the steel used in the manufacturing of steel article imports, covered by clause 1 of Proclamation 9705, and derivative steel articles, specified in Annex II of Proclamation 9980, are melted and poured. CBP shall implement the melt and pour information requirements as soon as practicable.
Pursuant to Proclamation 10783, effective November 21, 2024, importers are required to report to CBP the country of melt and pour for certain imported steel articles from all countries; and for imported derivative steel articles that are products of Mexico; regardless of whether Section 232 duty treatment, quota treatment, or exception treatment applies.
COUNTRY OF MELT AND POUR
Country of melt and pour refers to the original location where the raw steel is first produced in a steel-making furnace in a liquid state and then poured into its first solid shape. The first solid state can take the form of either a semi-finished product (slab, billets, or ingots) or a finished steel mill product. The location of melt and pour is customarily identified on mill test certificates generated at each stage of the production process and maintained in the ordinary course of business.
For imports of certain steel articles from all countries, when reporting the country of melt and pour, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country code where steel was originally melted and poured is mandatory.
For imports of derivative steel products, the reporting of the country of melt and pour code or applicability code is only required for products of Mexico. For derivative steel that are products of Mexico only, the applicability code “OTH” (Other) can be used if an ISO code was not provided in the country of melt and pour field.
For derivative steel products that are the product of countries other than Mexico, the ISO code will be accepted but is not required.
A steel mill certificate is required to be submitted via the Document Image System (DIS) in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) for iron or steel imports classifiable in Chapter 72 or headings 7301 to 7307 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). See CSMS #50930928 (February 4, 2022).
The ACE functionality to report the country of melt and pour for certain steel articles and derivative steel will be effective on November 21, 2024.
ACE CATAIR Entry Summary
The ACE CBP and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) Entry Summary Create/Update and Error Dictionary is updated to include new Importer’s Additional Declaration Type Code 08 (Steel Melt and Pour Country Detail) on the 54-record that will be required for articles of steel subject to the Section 232 steel articles from all countries and derivative steel articles the product of Mexico. These updates will be deployed to the Certification environment on October 22, 2024, and the Production environment on November 21, 2024. See CSMS #62280558 (September 17, 2024).
PRODUCTS COVERED
Per Proclamations 9705 and 9980, and Chapter 99 of the HTSUS, the following steel articles and derivative steel articles are subject to Section 232 measures, and are covered by the melt and pour reporting requirements:
Steel articles are defined at the HTSUS 6-digit level as 7206.10 through 7216.50, 7216.99 through 7301.10, 7302.10, 7302.40 through 7302.90, and 7304.10 through 7306.90, including any subsequent revisions to these HTSUS classifications.
Derivative steel products:
(A) nails, tacks (other than thumb tacks), drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (other than those of heading 8305) and similar articles, of iron or steel, whether or not with heads of other material (excluding such articles with heads of copper), suitable for use in powder-actuated hand tools, threaded (described in subheading 7317.00.30); and
(B) nails, tacks (other than thumb tacks), drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (other than those of heading 8305) and similar articles, of iron or steel, whether or not with heads of other material (excluding such articles with heads of copper), of one piece construction, whether or not made of round wire; the foregoing described in statistical reporting numbers 7317.00.5503, 7317.00.5505, 7317.00.5507, 7317.00.5560, 7317.00.5580 or 7317.00.6560 only and not in other statistical reporting numbers of subheadings 7317.00.55 and 7317.00.65;
(C) bumper stampings of steel, the foregoing comprising parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 8701 to 8705 (described in subheading 8708.10.30); and
(D) body stampings of steel, for tractors suitable for agricultural use (described in subheading 8708.29.21).
Questions from the importing community regarding this update should be referred to your assigned Client Representative.
If there are any questions concerns, or comments, please direct inquires to the Trade Remedy Branch at traderemedy@cbp.dhs.gov.
Related messages: CSMS #62095799, #62280558, #45271041, #42566154, #42355735, #41981999, #41538803, #39633923, #18-000424, #18-000378, #18-000372, #18-000352, #18-000258, #18-000249, and #18-000240
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