The Commerce Department plans to establish a process in the coming months for expanding its copper tariffs of up to 50 percent to cover a wider range of downstream products, the latest expected modification to President Donald Trump’s metals tariff regime.
The Bureau of Industry and Security disclosed the plan in a summary of its 2026 regulatory agenda, which said the changes would be applied by the end of the 2026 fiscal year.
The proposal would be the latest in a series of revisions to the administration’s metals tariff regime, complicating compliance for manufacturers and importers.
The summary agenda provides few details about how the new process would work, and no proposed rule has yet been published in the Federal Register, a necessary step before tariff modifications can go into effect.
