{"id":709445,"date":"2026-06-02T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709445\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:24:08","slug":"tariff-news-trump-amends-tariffs-on-steel-aluminum-and-copper-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709445\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariff news: Trump amends tariffs on steel, aluminum and copper imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed a proclamation amending tariffs on copper, aluminum and iron imports, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The proclamation lowers tariffs on some\u00a0steel and aluminum derivative products, including certain types of agricultural machineryand residential heating, air conditioning and ventilation equipment to 15 per cent from\u00a025 per cent\u00a0previously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It makes mobile industrial equipment, such as bulldozers and forklifts, subject to a 15 per cent tariff \u201cwhen imported from trade deal countries that are entitled to such treatment,\u201d the White House said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The order also allows foreign companies to qualify for a 10 per cent\u00a0tariff if\u00a0\u201ctheir capital equipment includes at least 85 per cent U.S. melted and poured or smelted and cast steel or aluminum by weight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The order adds two new categories of steel and aluminum derivative import products that will be subject to 25 per cent duties: steel racks and aluminum lithographic plates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The adjustments will become effective for goods imported or withdrawn from bonded warehouses after 12:01 a.m. EST (0401 GMT) on June 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The changes will\u00a0remain in place\u00a0until Dec. 31, 2027 \u201cto spur near\u2013term investments that will rebuild the Nation\u2019s industrial base,\u201d the White House said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reporting by Christian Martinez, additional reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Kate Mayberry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed a proclamation amending tariffs on copper, aluminum and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":["post-709445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-apple-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}