2026 HTS Revision 7: 10% Section 232 Rate for Copper Cable

At a glance

2026 HTS Revision 7 lets insulated copper wire and cable made with U.S.-smelted copper pay the 10% Section 232 rate instead of 25%, and adds heading 9903.82.01, a no-duty line for listed articles that contain no aluminum, steel or copper. Revision 7 is short: three changes, all in the Section 232 metals notes, and all reaching back to April 6, 2026. That's the day the current 9903.82 headings started.

What changed in Revision 7

Copper cable can use the 10% U.S.-smelted rate

U.S. note 16(e) used to say that heading 9903.82.06 applies to articles in subdivisions (c)(ii), (iv), (vi) and (vii). Revision 7 deleted that sentence.

With it gone, 9903.82.06 reaches everything its own heading text names: subdivisions (c)(ii), (iv), (vi) to (viii), and (e). Subdivision (c)(viii) is the copper list:

• 8544.42.10, 8544.42.20 and 8544.42.90
• 8544.49.10

So copper cable made with at least 95% U.S.-smelted and cast copper now pays the regular duty plus 10% under 9903.82.06. Without that, it stays under 9903.82.09 at the regular duty plus 25%.

Heading 9903.82.01 added for articles with no metal

New heading 9903.82.01 covers "articles provided for in subdivision (c) of U.S. note 16 ... that do not contain any aluminum, steel, or copper". It says "No change" in every rate column, so qualifying goods pay no Section 232 metals duty. Its scope is all of note 16(c), which includes the copper articles in (c)(viii).

Note 16(a) lists the new exemption

Note 16(a) now opens "Except as provided in headings 9903.82.01, 9903.85.67, and 9903.85.68". In other words, an article that qualifies for 9903.82.01 doesn't also enter under one of 9903.82.02 to 9903.82.19. Only one of those headings applies to an article.

Copper cable duty: a worked example

On $10,000 of insulated copper cable under 8544.42.90 (2.6% regular duty) from Vietnam:

That's $1,500 less per $10,000 for qualifying cable. A no-metal article under 9903.82.01 pays no Section 232 duty at all, although other duties can still apply. Note 2(aa)(v)(1) doesn't list 9903.82.01 among the Section 232 headings exempt from Section 122, so those articles paid Section 122's 10% until it expired at the close of July 23, 2026. From July 24, the Section 301 forced-labor duties in Revision 13 can apply instead.

If you import copper wire or cable, check your entries from April 6 onward. Make sure you have mill or smelter records that support the U.S.-smelted claim before you rely on it.

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What changed after Revision 7

• June 8, 2026: Revision 10 lowered the U.S.-content threshold in note 16(e) from 95% to 85%, so more copper cable qualifies for the 10% rate under 9903.82.06 from that date.
• July 24, 2026: Section 122 expired and country-by-country Section 301 forced-labor duties began (Revision 13). Copper cable paying a Section 232 duty is exempt from them; a no-metal article under 9903.82.01 isn't.

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