An update has been issued to the original notice “Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the U.S.–EU Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade,” which put into effect portions of the newly negotiated U.S.–EU trade framework announced on August 21, 2025. Executive Order 14346, signed on September 5, 2025, further authorized adjustments to a number of commodities of EU origin.
The Federal Register notice issued on September 24, 2025, provides additional guidance on tariff modifications affecting automobiles and automobile parts subject to Proclamation 10908 (Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States), as well as unavailable natural resources (including cork), all aircraft and aircraft parts, and generic pharmaceuticals and their ingredients or chemical precursors.
The HTSUS modifications detailed in Annex II of the notice are retroactively effective for goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after August 1, 2025, for modifications to tariffs imposed under Proclamation 10908 on automobiles and automobile parts (Annex II, Part A), and on or after September 1, 2025, for modifications to reciprocal tariffs and other tariffs imposed on aircraft and aircraft parts (Annex II, Part B).
As of August 1, 2025, passenger vehicles and light trucks with a most-favored-nation (MFN) duty rate above 15 percent will have no reciprocal tariff applied, while those with an MFN rate below 15 percent will be subject to a flat 15 percent total duty, inclusive of both the MFN and reciprocal rates. The same treatment applies to automobile parts.
If drawback may be claimed on the Column 1 duty paid for an automobile or automobile part that is a product of an EU member country, CBP has instructed filers to report the Column 1 duty amount on the Chapter 1 to 97 classification, and report the difference between 15 percent and the Column 1 tariff on heading 9903.94.51 or 9903.94.53.
Effective September 1, 2025, the notice introduces exemptions from reciprocal tariffs on more than 200 subheadings covering unavailable natural resources under HTS Chapters 7, 8, 9, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 36, 38, 45, 50, 71, 72, 80, and 81. Reciprocal tariff-free treatment was also extended to essential oils, other than those of citrus fruit, other, nesoi, for religious purposes only, classifiable in subheading 3301.29.51, as well as EU pharmaceutical products under 779 subheadings, which are now subject only to the applicable standard duty rate.
Also effective September 1, 2025, products of EU member countries that fall under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft pursuant to the PTAAP Annex, including EU civil aircraft and aircraft parts under more than 550 subheadings across HTS Chapters 39, 40, 48, 68, 70, 73, 74, 76, 81, 83, 84, 85, 88, 90, 91, 94, 96, and 98, are no longer subject to the additional tariffs imposed through Executive Order 14257, Proclamation 9704, Proclamation 9705, and Proclamation 10962 which cover reciprocal tariffs and Section 232 tariffs on aluminum, steel and copper. EU goods classified under these subheadings are now only subject to the applicable standard rate of duty.
The full notice, including Annex II listing the affected HTS subheadings, is available here: Federal Register Notice – 2025-18660