On March 26, 2025, the President issued Proclamation 10908, “Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts into The United States” (Automobile Proclamation), which imposed additional tariffs on certain automobiles and automobile parts. The Automobile Proclamation also required the Secretary of Commerce to establish a process for including additional automobile parts articles for passenger vehicles and light trucks within the scope of the tariffs imposed by the Automobile Proclamation. In addition to inclusions made by the Secretary of Commerce (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 Proclamation 9888, the Automobile Proclamation, or any subsequent proclamation addressing the threatened impairment to the national security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (Section 232). 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 U.S. 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 Automobile Proclamation tariffs are to be so included in the Federal Register describing the determination. The Federal Register notice will note the effective date of duties. 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.

(a) Scope. This supplement specifies the requirements and process for how directly affected parties located in the United States may submit requests for inclusions to the duties imposed by the President. This supplement also specifies the requirements and process for how parties in the United States may submit inclusion requests (both business confidential and public versions) and public comments in response to submitted inclusion requests for inclusion of automobile parts articles in the tariffs imposed by the President under the Automobile Proclamation (collectively, 232 submissions). This supplement also identifies the time periods for such submissions, the methods of submission, and the information that must be included in such submissions. This supplement also identifies the process for analysis of the submissions and public comments and the action taken upon the final determinations by the Secretary or designee.

(b) Inclusion requests. Who may submit an inclusion request?

(1) Producers of automobiles or automobile parts within the United States; or

(2) An industry association representing one or more such producers may submit inclusion requests.

(c) Timeframe of submitting requests. The International Trade Administration (ITA) will open a submissions window to receive automobile parts articles inclusion requests from industry during two-week submission windows four times annually, beginning on the first business day of each January, April, July, and October; the first such window is to open starting on October 1, 2025. All two-week submissions will occur on the first of the prescribed months.

(d) Inclusion request requirements. For the request to be considered a valid request, the requestor must adhere to the following general requirements and provide the following:

(1) Submission through the automobile inclusions process inbox at [email protected] within the 14-day public comment window;

(2) Requests must be submitted in PDF format;

(3) Limited to 30 pages inclusive of all attachments;

(4) Any business confidential submissions must also include a non-confidential public version;

(5) Clear identification of the applicant (i.e., individual, company, or trade association);

(6) A precise description of the automobile parts article;

(7) The eight or ten-digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) classification that serves as the basis for the determination;

(8) An explanation of why the article is an automobile parts article;

(9) Pertinent information on the domestic industry affected;

(10) Statistics on imports and domestic production; and

(11) A description of how and to what extent imports of the article threaten to impair the national security or otherwise undermines the objectives set forth in Proclamation 9888, the Automobile Proclamation, or any subsequent proclamation addressing the threatened impairment to the national security under Section 232.

(e) Review of inclusion petition requests. ITA will review the received requests on a rolling basis during the two-week submission window to validate that the received requests contain all the required elements and do not exceed the page limitation. In the instance where the requestor did not include all the required elements or improperly filed the submission, at the discretion of the Under Secretary for International Trade, the requestor will be granted a 48-hour window to resubmit a proper filing.

(f) Where and how to submit public comments—(1) Where to submit? Public comments are to be made via regulations.gov via the regulations.gov ID. The following regulations.gov IDs correspond to the four annual windows: January regulations.gov ID: ITA-2025-0039, April regulations.gov ID: ITA-2025-0040, July regulations.gov ID: ITA-2025-0037; and October regulations.gov ID: ITA-2025-0038. You may submit business confidential and public version public comments, identified by the regulations.gov ID above through the Federal eRulemaking website: https://www.regulations.gov. No other submission methods are being used for submitting public comments for the inclusions process. Follow the instructions for submitting public comments. All filers using the regulations.gov should use the name of the person or entity submitting the comments as the name of their files, in accordance with the instructions below. Anyone submitting business confidential information should clearly identify the business confidential portion at the time of submission, file a statement justifying nondisclosure and referring to the specific legal authority claimed, and provide a non-confidential version of the submission.

(2) Business confidential submissions. For comments submitted electronically containing business confidential information, the file name of the business confidential version should begin with the characters “BC.” Any page containing business confidential information must be clearly marked “BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL” on the top of that page. The corresponding non-confidential version of the comments must be clearly marked “PUBLIC.” The file name of the non-confidential version should begin with the character “P.” The “BC” and “P” should be followed by the name of the person or entity submitting the comments. Any submissions with file names that do not begin with a “BC” or “P” will be assumed to be public and will be made publicly available through https://www.regulations.gov. Commenters submitting business confidential information are encouraged to scan a hard copy of the non-confidential version to create an image of the file, rather than submitting a digital copy with redactions applied, to avoid inadvertent redaction errors which could enable the public to read business confidential information.

(g) Review and Public Comment Phase. ITA will publicly post non-confidential versions of all valid requests for a 14-day public comment window on https://regulations.gov after the conclusion of the two-week submission window. Members of the public will have the opportunity to comment on the inclusion requests submitted by parties. Collecting public comments ensures a transparent, complete, and legally robust process for conducting analysis and making final determinations of derivative inclusion requests. ITA will review all accepted inclusion requests and public comments.

(h) Decision Phase. The Secretary or designee will sign a positive or negative determination. After the determination, ITA will, for each inclusions request, and, within 60 days of receiving the request, generate and publicly post on regulations.gov a determination memorandum that:

(1) States whether the request was approved or denied; and

(2) Summarizes the rationale for making this determination.

(3) The date of signature on the determination memorandum must be prior to the close of the respective 60-day derivative inclusion processing period, as directed in the Automobile Proclamation. A Federal Register notice will then be issued that modifies Annex I to the Automobile Proclamation with the included products at the eight- to ten-digit HTSUS subheadings. Duties on newly included articles will take effect on the date specified in that Federal Register notice.>