50% Copper Tariff to Start August 1st
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50% Copper Tariff to Start August 1st
Posted on Jul 11
By: Brian Walczyk, Compliance Manager, TradeInsights, LCB, CCS
President Trump confirmed in a Truth Social post on July 9th that a 50% tariff on copper would become effective August 1st.
The Section 232 investigation details, surrounding this copper tariff announcement, have not been made public as of this writing.
We will continue to provide updates as they are made available, including when the impacted commodities (by HTS) are known.
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