The US Division of Commerce introduced, on Tuesday, that it’ll think about within the coming weeks requests to impose customs duties on extra auto elements imports for nationwide safety causes.
The ministry mentioned in an announcement that the auto trade is witnessing a fast growth within the areas of superior know-how, together with different cost methods, self -driving applied sciences and different improvements, which requires giving the sector a chance to find out new merchandise of significance to nationwide safety.
The ministry defined that the native automobile producers and spare elements can apply to incorporate extra elements on the listing of charges if it seems that they’re essential in protection functions.
This comes after the ministry’s determination final month to extend customs duties over greater than 400 merchandise of metal and aluminum, together with parts of the auto trade, together with exhaust methods and electrical metal supplies utilized in electrical automobiles and buses.
In Might, US President Donald Trump imposed a 25% customs duties on annual imports of automobiles and spare elements of greater than $ 460 billion, earlier than later reached agreements to scale back these charges with some international locations.
