Section 122 Tariff Expired — What Happens to My Import Duties Now?

Short answer: Section 122's 10% across-the-board tariff expires July 24, 2026, but your duties don't disappear — they shift. The USTR's Section 301 replacement action proposes 10–12.5% duties with no statutory expiration, so most importers move from one regime straight into another. Your per-unit landed cost is changing, not falling to zero, and the exact number depends on your HTS code.

Why the duties don't just vanish

Section 122 was always a 150-day statutory measure. Congress is not expected to extend it before the November midterms. What steps in behind it is the Section 301 action — a different legal authority that carries no built-in expiration and renews on four-year cycles. On top of that, Section 232 (steel/aluminum/derivatives), ADD/CVD orders, and any product-specific reciprocal measures continue independently of the Section 122 sunset.

What this means for your business

• The “headline” rate you were quoting under Section 122 is about to be wrong.
• Your true landed cost has to be re-derived for the post-cliff regime, per HTS code.
• If you imported under tariffs later invalidated, you may also be owed a refund (a separate track).

What to do this week

1. Identify which of your HTS codes were exposed to Section 122.
2. Re-run the landed-cost math under the Section 301 replacement rate for those codes.
3. Set up monitoring so the next rate change reaches you before it hits an invoice.

Sources: ttnews.com (7/2026); industrialsage.com (7/16); AP/abcnews.com (7/16). Rates as of 2026-07-16; verify against the current Federal Register notice before relying on a specific number.