[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 17, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 44767-44772]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18015]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Industry and Security

15 CFR Part 705

[Docket No. 250728-0130]
RIN 0625-AB30


Adoption and Procedures of the Section 232 Automobile Parts 
Tariff Inclusions Process

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Interim final rule.

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SUMMARY: On March 26, 2025, the President issued Proclamation 10908, 
``Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts into The United 
States'' (Automobile Proclamation). The Automobile Proclamation 
required the Secretary of Commerce to establish a process for including 
additional automobile parts articles for passenger vehicles and light 
trucks within the scope of the tariffs imposed by the President in the 
Automobile Proclamation. This interim final rule (IFR) establishes the 
requisite process.

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DATES: This rule is effective September 17, 2025. Comments on this 
interim final rule must be received by the International Trade 
Administration no later than November 3, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Public comments on this rule are to be made via https://www.regulations.gov/docket/ITA-2025-0041. The regulations.gov ID for 
this rule is: ITA-2025-0041. Please refer to RIN 0625-AB30 in all 
comments. All filers submitting comments in regulations.gov should use 
the name of the person or entity submitting the comments as the name of 
their files, in accordance with the instructions below. Anyone 
submitting business confidential information should clearly identify 
the business confidential portion at the time of submission, file a 
statement justifying nondisclosure and referring to the specific legal 
authority claimed, and provide a non-confidential version of the 
submission.
    For comments submitted electronically containing business 
confidential information, the file name of the business confidential 
version should begin with the characters ``BC.'' Any page containing 
business confidential information must be clearly marked ``BUSINESS 
CONFIDENTIAL'' on the top of that page. The corresponding non-
confidential version of those comments must be clearly marked 
``PUBLIC.'' The file name of the non-confidential version should begin 
with the character ``P.'' Any submissions with file names that do not 
begin with either a ``BC'' or a ``P'' will be assumed to be public and 
will be made publicly available at: https://www.regulations.gov. 
Commenters submitting business confidential information are encouraged 
to scan a hard copy of the non-confidential version to create an image 
of the file, rather than submitting a digital copy with redactions 
applied, to avoid inadvertent redaction errors which could enable the 
public to read business confidential information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions regarding this interim 
final rule, contact Emily Davis, Director for Public Affairs, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 202-
482-3809, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

A. Section 232 and Adjustments of Imports of Automobile Parts

    On March 26, 2025, the President issued Proclamation 10908, 
``Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts into The United 
States,'' 90 FR 14705 (April 3, 2025) (Automobile Proclamation), which 
imposed additional tariffs on certain automobiles and automobile parts. 
The Automobile Proclamation also required the Secretary of Commerce 
(Secretary) to establish a process for including additional automobile 
parts articles within the scope of the tariffs imposed by the President 
in the Automobile Proclamation. In addition to inclusions made by the 
Secretary, this process provides for including additional automobile 
parts articles at the request of a domestic producer of an automobile 
or automobile parts article, or an industry association representing 
one or more such producers, where the request establishes that imports 
of additional automobile parts articles have increased in a manner that 
threatens to impair the national security or otherwise undermines the 
objectives set forth in Proclamation 9888 (84 FR 23433, May 17, 2019), 
the Automobile Proclamation, or any subsequent proclamation addressing 
the threatened impairment to the national security under Section 232 of 
the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1862) (Section 
232). When the Secretary receives such a request from a domestic 
producer or industry association, the Secretary, after consultation 
with the United States International Trade Commission and U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection, is to issue a determination regarding whether to 
include the articles within 60 days of receiving the request. Any 
additional automobile parts articles that the Secretary has determined 
to be included within the scope of the tariffs described in the 
Automobile Proclamation are to be so included on or after 12:01 a.m. 
eastern daylight time the day after a notice in the Federal Register 
describing the Secretary's determination. The notice in the Federal 
Register is to be made as soon as practicable but no later than 14 days 
after the Secretary's determination.
    The International Trade Administration (ITA), in this interim final 
rule (IFR), establishes the process for including additional automobile 
parts articles within the scope of the tariffs imposed by the President 
in the Automobile Proclamation. While the Bureau of Industry and 
Security (BIS) is promulgating this rule, ITA will administer the 
process described in the rule.

B. Purpose of This IFR

    The Automobile Proclamation required that this process be 
established within 90 days, meaning no later than June 24, 2025. The 
Secretary of Commerce established the automobile parts articles 
inclusion process on June 24, 2025, as required by the Automobile 
Proclamation. See https://www.trade.gov/press-release/department-commerce-announces-new-auto-parts-tariff-inclusions-process. ITA, 
through BIS, is publishing this IFR to inform the public of the 
establishment of this process. The automotive industry is in a state of 
rapid development for various technologies, including in the areas of 
alternative propulsion systems, autonomous driving capabilities, and 
other advanced technologies. It is important that manufacturers 
supporting both the commercial vehicle industry and the defense sector 
have the opportunity to identify new and emerging automotive products 
with importance for defense applications to be considered under the 
scope of this action. In addition, there are many automotive products 
that fall under broad tariff codes that include parts beyond the 
automotive sector. While the Department made a best estimate of the 
most important tariff codes to apply to the scope of the Section 232 
action, industry experts may be aware of broad Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) codes that have become 
increasingly important to automotive uses that were not originally 
considered under this investigation. It is expected that up to 50 
respondents from the private sector will complete submissions to be 
considered for automobile parts inclusion submissions in connection 
with Proclamation 10908. Those submissions are estimated to take each 
respondent eight hours to complete, four times per year, resulting in 
total estimated respondent burden of approximately 1,600 hours.

C. Submitting Public Comments on This Interim Final Rule

    The comment submission process on this IFR is separate and distinct 
from the comment submission process for the inclusion requests. For 
submitting comments on this IFR in regulations.gov, follow the 
instructions as specified in the ADDRESSES section of this IFR. For 
submitting comments on inclusion requests, please follow the 
instructions as provided in the regulatory text within Supplement No. 2 
to 15 CFR 705.

II. Amendments To Establish the Automobiles Inclusions Process

A. Submission Phase

    Domestic producers of automobiles or automobile parts articles, or 
any industry association representing one or more such producers, may 
submit

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automobile parts articles inclusion requests during two-week submission 
windows that ITA will open four times annually at the beginning of each 
January, April, July, and October, and the first such window is to open 
for two weeks on October 1, 2025. All two-week submissions will occur 
on the first of the prescribed months. Submissions of inclusions 
requests must be submitted in PDF format via email to 
[email protected]. For the request to be considered valid, the 
requestor must provide the following in their request:
     Clear identification of the requestor (i.e., producer of 
an automobile or automobile parts article, or an industry association 
of such producers);
     A precise description of the automobile parts article that 
is the subject of the request;
     The eight or ten-digit HTSUS classification requested to 
be included in the scope of the tariffs;
     An explanation of why the article is an automobile parts 
article;
     Pertinent information on the domestic industry affected;
     Statistics on imports and domestic production;
     A description of how and to what extent imports of the 
article have increased in a manner that threatens to impair the 
national security or otherwise undermines the objectives set forth in 
Proclamation 9888, the Automobile Proclamation, or any subsequent 
proclamation addressing the threatened impairment to the national 
security;
     Any business confidential submissions must also include a 
non-confidential public version; and
     All information submitted must be limited to 30 pages 
inclusive of all attachments.
    ITA will review the received requests on a rolling basis during the 
two-week submission window to validate that each received request 
contains all the required elements and does not exceed the page 
limitation. In the instance where the requestor does not include all 
the required elements or otherwise improperly filed the submission, at 
the discretion of the Under Secretary for International Trade, the 
requestor will be granted a 48-hour window to submit a proper filing. 
The use of fixed submission windows will provide predictability to 
industry and will be the most efficient use of ITA resources given the 
short timeframes to secure and process public comments and provide 
recommendations.

B. Review and Public Comment Phase

    ITA will publicly post non-confidential versions of all valid 
requests for a 14-day public comment window on regulations.gov after 
the conclusion of the two-week submission window. Collecting public 
comments will ensure a transparent, complete, and legally robust 
process for conducting analysis and making final determinations of 
inclusion requests. This action will also represent confirmation of 
receipt and acceptance by ITA, initiating the 60-day timeline for 
processing automobile parts articles inclusion requests as directed in 
the Automobile Proclamation. ITA will begin analysis of each accepted 
inclusion request concurrently with the start of the public comment 
window. Each inclusion request will be assessed for: (1) whether the 
described product at the eight- or ten-digit HTSUS classification is an 
automobile parts article; and (2) whether imports of such automobile 
parts articles have increased in a manner that threatens to impair the 
national security or otherwise undermines the objectives set forth in 
Proclamation 9888, the Automobile Proclamation, or any subsequent 
proclamation addressing the threatened impairment to the national 
security.
Where and How To Submit Public Comments
    Public comments on inclusion requests are to be submitted through 
regulations.gov, via the regulations.gov IDs through the Federal 
eRulemaking website at: https://www.regulations.gov, within the 14-day 
public comment window. The following regulations.gov IDs correspond to 
the four annual windows: January regulations.gov ID: ITA-2025-0039, 
April regulations.gov ID: ITA-2025-0040, July regulations.gov ID: ITA-
2025-0037; and October regulations.gov ID: ITA-2025-0038. No other 
submission methods are being used for submitting public comments for 
the inclusions process. This comment submission process for inclusion 
requests is separate and distinct from the process for submitting 
public comments on this IFR. To submit comments on this IFR, follow the 
instructions as specified in the ADDRESSES section of this IFR.

C. Decision Phase

    With respect to each request, the Secretary or designee will make a 
positive or negative determination. After the determination, ITA will 
generate and publicly post a determination memorandum in 
regulations.gov for each inclusions request within 60 days of receiving 
the requests that: (1) states whether the request was approved or 
denied; and (2) summarizes the rationale for making this determination. 
The date of the determination must be prior to the close of the 
respective 60-day processing period, as directed in the Automobile 
Proclamation. A Federal Register notice will then be issued that 
announces the modification of Annex I to the Automobile Proclamation 
with the included products at the eight- to ten-digit HTSUS subheading. 
Duties on newly included articles will take effect shortly thereafter 
through coordination with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The 
Federal Register notice will note the effective date of duties on the 
newly included notice.

III. Regulatory Changes

    The following provisions are being added as Supplement No. 2 to 
Part 705:
     An introductory paragraph is added to explain the 
background and establishment of the Section 232 automobile parts 
articles inclusion process;
     Paragraph (a) is added to explain the scope of the 
automobile parts articles inclusion process;
     Paragraph (b) is added to provide information on who may 
submit an inclusion request;
     Paragraph (c) is added to provide the timeframes for 
submitting inclusion requests and to provide requestors with 
information on the submission windows of when to submit their requests;
     Paragraph (d) is added to provide requestors information 
on where to submit inclusion requests, the general requirements for 
submitting an inclusion request, and the information required in the 
request;
     Paragraph (e) is added to explain to requestors the review 
process of received requests and the process for correcting invalid 
submissions;
     Paragraph (f) is added to provide information on where and 
how to submit public comments;
     Paragraph (g) is added to provide information to 
requestors and commenters on the review and public comment phase; and
     Paragraph (h) is added to detail the procedures ITA takes 
with determinations made regarding the inclusion requests.

IV. Rulemaking Requirements

    1. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 direct agencies to assess all 
costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, if 
regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize 
net benefits (including potential economic,

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environmental, public health and safety effects, distributive impacts, 
and equity). Executive Order 13563 emphasizes the importance of 
quantifying both costs and benefits, of reducing costs, of harmonizing 
rules, and of promoting flexibility. This IFR has been determined to be 
a ``significant regulatory action,'' although not economically 
significant under section 3(f)(1), of Executive Order 12866. Pursuant 
to the Automobile Proclamation, the establishment of procedures for an 
inclusions process shall be published in the Federal Register. This IFR 
is exempt from Executive Order 14192 because it is being issued with 
respect to a national security function of the United States.
    2. The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) 
(PRA) provides that an agency generally cannot conduct or sponsor a 
collection of information, and no person is required to respond to nor 
be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with a collection of 
information, unless that collection has obtained Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) approval and displays a currently valid OMB Control 
Number.
    The Department of Commerce (Department) requested and OMB 
authorized emergency processing of information collection involved in 
this rule, consistent with 5 CFR 1320.13. The Automobile Proclamation 
required the Secretary to establish within 90 days a process for 
including additional automobile parts articles within the scope of the 
tariffs proclaimed in the Automobile Proclamation and this IFR informs 
the public of the establishment of that process. The Automobile 
Proclamation sets several requirements for the Department to process 
petitions requesting the inclusion of automobile parts articles under 
the Automobile Proclamation. It states that the process shall provide 
for including additional articles at the direction of the Secretary 
unilaterally, or at the request of a domestic producer of automobiles 
or automobile parts articles or an industry association representing 
one or more such producers. Applications for the inclusion of 
automobile parts articles must establish that imports have increased in 
a manner that threatens to impair the national security or otherwise 
undermines the objectives set forth in Proclamation 9888, the 
Automobile Proclamation, or any subsequent proclamation addressing the 
threatened impairment to the national security under Section 232. The 
Automobile Proclamation directs that the Secretary issue a 
determination on any such request within 60 days of its receipt. The 
immediate implementation of an effective inclusions request process, 
consistent with the intent of the Automobile Proclamation, also 
requires creating a process to allow any individual or organization in 
the United States to submit inclusion requests and to submit comments 
in response to such inclusion requests submitted by the public. The 
Department has determined the following conditions have been met:
    a. The collection of information is needed before the expiration of 
time periods normally associated with a routine submission for review 
under the provisions of the PRA in view of the Automobile Proclamation, 
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/03/2025-05930/adjusting-imports-of-automobiles-and-automobile-parts-into-the-united-states.
    b. The collection of information is essential to the mission of the 
Department, in particular to the adjudication of automobile parts 
articles inclusions requests.
    c. The use of normal clearance procedures would prevent the 
collection of information of automobile parts articles inclusions 
requests for national security purposes.
    Agency: Commerce Department.
    Type of Information Collection: New Collection.
    Title of the Collection: Inclusions to the Section 232 National 
Security Adjustments to Automobile Parts Imports.
    Affected Public: Private Sector--Businesses.
    Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 50.
    Response Periods per Year: 4.
    Total Estimated Number of Responses: 200.
    Average Time per Response: 8 hours.
    Total Annual Time Burden: 1,600.
    Type of Information Collection: Emergency Collection.
    OMB Control Number: 0625-0284.
    3. This rule does not contain policies with Federalism implications 
as that term is defined in Executive Order 13132.
    4. The provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) (5 
U.S.C. 553) requiring notice of proposed rulemaking, the opportunity 
for public comment, and a delay in effective date are inapplicable 
because this regulation involves a military function of the United 
States (5 U.S.C. 553(a)(1)) because automobiles and automobile parts 
production is vital to the U.S. national security. After receiving a 
report from the Secretary finding that automobiles and automobile parts 
are being imported into the United States in such quantities or under 
such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security of 
the United States, the President determined that he concurred in the 
Secretary's finding and determined the nature and duration of the 
action that, in the judgment of the President, must be taken to adjust 
the imports of the articles so that such imports will not threaten to 
impair the national security (as described in Proclamation 9888 and the 
Automobile Proclamation).
    In the President's judgment, that implementation includes the 
creation of an effective process by which affected domestic parties can 
submit inclusion requests based on imports that ``threaten to impair 
the national security'' of the United States. The President has imposed 
tariffs to reduce or eliminate the threat to national security posed by 
imports of such products and directed the Secretary to set up this 
process as part of the adjustment-of-imports system the President 
adopted to protect critical U.S. national security interests. The 
immediate implementation of this inclusion process, as directed by the 
President, is necessary to identify additional automobile parts 
articles that warrant tariffs to protect U.S. national security 
interests. Specifically, delaying the adoption of these changes to 
solicit public comments would further delay the identification and 
imposition of tariffs on such products to protect U.S. national 
security.
    Even if 553(a)(1) did not apply, the Department also finds that 
there is good cause to exempt this rule from the APA requirements for 
public notice and comment under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and delayed 
effective date under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3) because it would be contrary to 
the public interest to have a notice and comment period or other delay 
prior to this action taking effect. Specifically, delaying adoption of 
this inclusion process would harm the national security of the United 
States and harm U.S. manufacturers by further delaying their ability to 
request relief from these imports that are damaging their companies and 
the U.S. defense industrial base in the process. The U.S. defense 
industrial base is critical to protecting U.S. national security and 
implementation of this inclusions process is necessary to be adopted as 
soon as possible to mitigate any potential national security threat 
that acts as a detriment to the public interest.
    5. Because neither the APA nor any other law requires an 
opportunity for public comment be given for this rule, the analytical 
requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) 
are not applicable. Accordingly,

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no Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis is required and none has been 
prepared.

List of Subjects in 15 CFR Part 705

    Administrative practice and procedure, Business and industry, 
Classified information, Confidential business information, Imports, 
Investigations, National defense.

    For the reasons set forth in the preamble, part 705 of subchapter A 
of 15 CFR chapter VII is amended as follows:

PART 705--EFFECT OF IMPORTED ARTICLES ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY

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1. The authority citation for part 705 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as 
amended (19 U.S.C. 1862) and Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1979 (44 FR 69273, 
December 3, 1979).


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2. Add Supplement No. 2 to part 705 to read as follows:

Supplement No. 2 to Part 705--Requirements for Submissions Requesting 
Inclusions to the Adjustment of Imports of Automobiles and Automobile 
Parts Pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as 
Amended

    On March 26, 2025, the President issued Proclamation 10908, 
``Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts into The 
United States'' (Automobile Proclamation), which imposed additional 
tariffs on certain automobiles and automobile parts. The Automobile 
Proclamation also required the Secretary of Commerce to establish a 
process for including additional automobile parts articles for 
passenger vehicles and light trucks within the scope of the tariffs 
imposed by the Automobile Proclamation. In addition to inclusions 
made by the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary), the process is to 
provide for including additional automobile parts articles at the 
request of a domestic producer of an automobile or automobile parts 
article, or an industry association representing one or more such 
producers, where the request establishes that imports of additional 
automobile parts articles have increased in a manner that threatens 
to impair the national security or otherwise undermines the 
objectives set forth in Proclamation 9888, the Automobile 
Proclamation, or any subsequent proclamation addressing the 
threatened impairment to the national security under Section 232 of 
the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (Section 232). When the 
Secretary receives such a request from a domestic producer or 
industry association, the Secretary, after consultation with the 
United States International Trade Commission and U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection, is to issue a determination regarding whether to 
include the articles within 60 days of receiving the request. Any 
additional automobile parts articles that the Secretary has 
determined to be included within the scope of the Automobile 
Proclamation tariffs are to be so included in the Federal Register 
describing the determination. The Federal Register notice will note 
the effective date of duties. The notice in the Federal Register is 
to be made as soon as practicable but no later than 14 days after 
the Secretary's determination.
    (a) Scope. This supplement specifies the requirements and 
process for how directly affected parties located in the United 
States may submit requests for inclusions to the duties imposed by 
the President. This supplement also specifies the requirements and 
process for how parties in the United States may submit inclusion 
requests (both business confidential and public versions) and public 
comments in response to submitted inclusion requests for inclusion 
of automobile parts articles in the tariffs imposed by the President 
under the Automobile Proclamation (collectively, 232 submissions). 
This supplement also identifies the time periods for such 
submissions, the methods of submission, and the information that 
must be included in such submissions. This supplement also 
identifies the process for analysis of the submissions and public 
comments and the action taken upon the final determinations by the 
Secretary or designee.
    (b) Inclusion requests. Who may submit an inclusion request?
    (1) Producers of automobiles or automobile parts within the 
United States; or
    (2) An industry association representing one or more such 
producers may submit inclusion requests.
    (c) Timeframe of submitting requests. The International Trade 
Administration (ITA) will open a submissions window to receive 
automobile parts articles inclusion requests from industry during 
two-week submission windows four times annually, beginning on the 
first business day of each January, April, July, and October; the 
first such window is to open starting on October 1, 2025. All two-
week submissions will occur on the first of the prescribed months.
    (d) Inclusion request requirements. For the request to be 
considered a valid request, the requestor must adhere to the 
following general requirements and provide the following:
    (1) Submission through the automobile inclusions process inbox 
at [email protected] within the 14-day public comment window;
    (2) Requests must be submitted in PDF format;
    (3) Limited to 30 pages inclusive of all attachments;
    (4) Any business confidential submissions must also include a 
non-confidential public version;
    (5) Clear identification of the applicant (i.e., individual, 
company, or trade association);
    (6) A precise description of the automobile parts article;
    (7) The eight or ten-digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (HTSUS) classification that serves as the basis for 
the determination;
    (8) An explanation of why the article is an automobile parts 
article;
    (9) Pertinent information on the domestic industry affected;
    (10) Statistics on imports and domestic production; and
    (11) A description of how and to what extent imports of the 
article threaten to impair the national security or otherwise 
undermines the objectives set forth in Proclamation 9888, the 
Automobile Proclamation, or any subsequent proclamation addressing 
the threatened impairment to the national security under Section 
232.
    (e) Review of inclusion petition requests. ITA will review the 
received requests on a rolling basis during the two-week submission 
window to validate that the received requests contain all the 
required elements and do not exceed the page limitation. In the 
instance where the requestor did not include all the required 
elements or improperly filed the submission, at the discretion of 
the Under Secretary for International Trade, the requestor will be 
granted a 48-hour window to resubmit a proper filing.
    (f) Where and how to submit public comments--(1) Where to 
submit? Public comments are to be made via regulations.gov via the 
regulations.gov ID. The following regulations.gov IDs correspond to 
the four annual windows: January regulations.gov ID: ITA-2025-0039, 
April regulations.gov ID: ITA-2025-0040, July regulations.gov ID: 
ITA-2025-0037; and October regulations.gov ID: ITA-2025-0038. You 
may submit business confidential and public version public comments, 
identified by the regulations.gov ID above through the Federal 
eRulemaking website: https://www.regulations.gov. No other 
submission methods are being used for submitting public comments for 
the inclusions process. Follow the instructions for submitting 
public comments. All filers using the regulations.gov should use the 
name of the person or entity submitting the comments as the name of 
their files, in accordance with the instructions below. Anyone 
submitting business confidential information should clearly identify 
the business confidential portion at the time of submission, file a 
statement justifying nondisclosure and referring to the specific 
legal authority claimed, and provide a non-confidential version of 
the submission.
    (2) Business confidential submissions. For comments submitted 
electronically containing business confidential information, the 
file name of the business confidential version should begin with the 
characters ``BC.'' Any page containing business confidential 
information must be clearly marked ``BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL'' on the 
top of that page. The corresponding non-confidential version of the 
comments must be clearly marked ``PUBLIC.'' The file name of the 
non-confidential version should begin with the character ``P.'' The 
``BC'' and ``P'' should be followed by the name of the person or 
entity submitting the comments. Any submissions with file names that 
do not begin with a ``BC'' or ``P'' will be assumed to be public and 
will be made publicly available through https://

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www.regulations.gov. Commenters submitting business confidential 
information are encouraged to scan a hard copy of the non-
confidential version to create an image of the file, rather than 
submitting a digital copy with redactions applied, to avoid 
inadvertent redaction errors which could enable the public to read 
business confidential information.
    (g) Review and Public Comment Phase. ITA will publicly post non-
confidential versions of all valid requests for a 14-day public 
comment window on https://regulations.gov after the conclusion of 
the two-week submission window. Members of the public will have the 
opportunity to comment on the inclusion requests submitted by 
parties. Collecting public comments ensures a transparent, complete, 
and legally robust process for conducting analysis and making final 
determinations of derivative inclusion requests. ITA will review all 
accepted inclusion requests and public comments.
    (h) Decision Phase. The Secretary or designee will sign a 
positive or negative determination. After the determination, ITA 
will, for each inclusions request, and, within 60 days of receiving 
the request, generate and publicly post on regulations.gov a 
determination memorandum that:
    (1) States whether the request was approved or denied; and
    (2) Summarizes the rationale for making this determination.
    (3) The date of signature on the determination memorandum must 
be prior to the close of the respective 60-day derivative inclusion 
processing period, as directed in the Automobile Proclamation. A 
Federal Register notice will then be issued that modifies Annex I to 
the Automobile Proclamation with the included products at the eight- 
to ten-digit HTSUS subheadings. Duties on newly included articles 
will take effect on the date specified in that Federal Register 
notice.

Robby Saunders,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Security.
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