Tariffs
Every tariff action: legal authority, rate, current standing, and who paid.
Standing rule: no scores. Color marks whether something is in force, reversed, contested, concluded, or permanent — not good or bad.
- Color is a legal fact, not an opinion. It shows — whether something is still in force, was reversed, or is contested in court — never whether it was good or bad.
- Every number links to its source and to how strongly it can be tied to the action () — click any figure to see the full evidence.
- Nothing here is scored, graded, or ranked. When two credible sources disagree, this archive shows both numbers instead of picking one.
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Each tariff is an action with the archive’s usual layers: what was imposed, under what legal authority (, , or — click any to see what it means), where it stands now, and its measured effects. Every rate below was read out of the governing Federal Register document rather than recalled. The effects — prices, retaliation, revenue — live in the linked entry with at least two sourced estimates each, never averaged into one number. Status is a legal fact, not a verdict on the policy: “in force” and “no longer collected” say what happened, not whether it was wise.
A rate and a date are fixed forever; whether a duty is still being collected is not. Every row carries the date its status was last checked against the record, shown on the card. 7 of 19 actions have no entry yet, so they publish a sourced action and no measured effects — marked as such rather than left to look complete.
Tariff actions, newest first
The highest headline rate of any action in this dataset, and the only one with a scheduled increase four years out written into the proclamation itself.
Issued the same day as the proclamation on processed critical minerals, extending Section 232 into inputs rather than finished goods.
The proclamation caps the rate for imports from the European Union and Japan at 15 percent. Amended in January 2026.
The proclamation also records the Secretary's recommendation of a phased universal tariff on refined copper of 15 percent from 2027 and 30 percent from 2028 — a recommendation, not an imposition, and recorded here as such.
The proclamation modifies the earlier rates “from 25 percent ad valorem to 50 percent ad valorem” for both metals. Later proclamations in April and June 2026 adjusted the regime further.
Executive Order 14257, the broadest of the IEEPA actions. The Supreme Court held 6-3 on 20 February 2026 that IEEPA does not authorise tariffs; collection ceased on 22 February 2026 and a narrower Section 122 surcharge replaced it. See the linked entry for the ruling, the replacement and the refund proceedings.
Ended by: Held unlawful in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, then ended by Executive Order 14389
The proclamation provides that an importer approved by the Secretary may apply the 25 percent rate to the non-US content of a vehicle only; where content is not substantiated, the rate applies to the full value.
The proclamation records that domestic primary aluminium production fell 30 percent between 2020 and 2024 and that smelter capacity utilisation was 52 percent in 2024. Superseded in June 2025.
The proclamation records that imports from Canada rose 18 percent after Canada was excluded from the original tariff, and that import share reached nearly 30 percent in 2024. Superseded four months later when the rate doubled.
Executive Order 14193. Ended along with the other IEEPA duties by Executive Order 14389, which directs agencies to terminate collection.
Ended by: Executive Order 14389 of 20 February 2026
Executive Order 14195. The November 2025 order reducing the rate back to 10 percent records that it followed commitments made by China; the archive states the sequence and attributes the reason to the order rather than asserting one.
Ended by: Executive Order 14389 of 20 February 2026
Executive Order 14194, issued the same day as the Canada and China orders.
Ended by: Executive Order 14389 of 20 February 2026
The notice sets the additional duty at 10 percent from 24 September 2018 and states it will increase to 25 percent on 1 January 2019. This is the list that took the action from tens of billions to hundreds.
Took effect 23 August 2018 on the same 25 percent ad valorem basis as the first list.
The first of four lists. Unlike the IEEPA tariffs, the Section 301 duties were not disturbed by the 2026 Supreme Court ruling and continue to be collected.
Issued the same day as the steel proclamation and on the same stated rationale of restoring domestic capacity utilisation to about 80 percent. Superseded by the February 2025 proclamation, which removed the exclusions and raised the rate to 25 percent.
The proclamation states the tariff was set at a level the Secretary assessed would let domestic producers run at about 80 percent of capacity. The country exclusions and quota arrangements added over the following two years were removed in February 2025, and the rate was raised in June 2025.
A four-year declining schedule, set out in Annex I to the proclamation rather than in its text. Cells not assembled into modules also carried a tariff-rate quota, whose in-quota quantity the proclamation says is unchanged across the four years. The measure was continued by a later proclamation before this schedule ran out, and modified again in 2024.
Ended by: Proclamation of 9 February 2022 continuing the safeguard measure
A tariff-rate quota rather than a flat duty: a lower rate inside an annual volume and a much higher one above it, both declining over three years. Washer parts carried their own quota, rising from 50,000 to 90,000 units. The schedule is in the Annex, not the proclamation text.
Ended by: Proclamation of 21 January 2021 continuing the safeguard measure