CBP Issued Harmonized System Update for Section 232 Metals Duties and PGA Flags
CBP title: Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2607
This message is from April 8, 2026. Later CSMS messages may have changed it. See the latest trade news
What did CBP announce?
CBP announced that Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2607, created April 5, 2026, added 116 tariff records and 519 ABI records. The update reflected Section 232 duties on aluminum, steel, and copper effective April 6, 2026, and included EPA and FDA changes to partner government agency HTS flags, including a flag change for one FDA HTS code.
What is Allied's position?
This was a technical update to the tariff database that supported entries filed around April 2026, including Section 232 duty coding for aluminum, steel, and copper and updated PGA flags. Later CSMS messages may have changed Section 232 rates, scope, or PGA flag requirements since then. Clients with entries from that period involving these metals or the affected FDA HTS code should ask Allied to review their entries for current status.
General information, not legal advice.
What does the CBP message say?
Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2607 was created on April 5, 2026, and contains 116 harmonized tariff records and 519 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records.
This HSU contains updates pertaining to the Section 232 duties on imports of aluminum, steel, and copper effective April 6, 2026. For more information or guidance, please see proclamation Strengthening Actions Taken to Adjust Imports of Aluminum, Steel and Copper into the United States (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/04/strengthening-actions-taken-to-adjust-imports-of-aluminum-steel-and-copper-into-the-united-states/) and CSMS # 68253075 (https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDHSCBP-4117593?wgt_ref=USDHSCBP_WIDGET_2).
Additionally, this HSU includes updates that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have each made to their respective HTS flags. Specifically, EPA removed 8 EP5 and EP7 flags, added 19 EP5 and EP7 flags, and added 1 EP6 tariff flag. The FDA tariff flag FD3 was also changed to FD2 for HTS 3001.90.0150 Glands and other organs, dried, whether or not powdered: Other than Liver.
For questions related to PGA HTS flags, please email Imports@fda.hhs.gov (mailto:Imports@fda.hhs.gov) or itdssupport@cbp.dhs.gov (mailto:itdssupport@cbp.dhs.gov).
For questions regarding Section 232 updates, contact the Trade Remedy Branch at TradeRemedy@cbp.dhs.gov (mailto:TradeRemedy@cbp.dhs.gov).
Other questions or concerns should be directed to the HTS Administrator at HTSAdmin@cbp.dhs.gov (mailto:HTSAdmin@cbp.dhs.gov).
Related Message Number(s): 68253075