SUPPORTING AMERICAN INDUSTRY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Act) ordering the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to jointly negotiate agreements with trading partners to address the threatened impairment of national security with respect to commercial aircraft, jet engines, and their associated parts from any country. 

• In these negotiations, the Administration will work with our trading partners to address, among other things, the impact of foreign imports on the health of the U.S. commercial aerospace industry.
• The Secretary of Commerce will inform the President of any circumstances that might indicate the need for further action under Section 232 with respect to commercial aircraft, jet engines, and their associated parts.
• The President may also take other actions he deems necessary to adjust imports of commercial aircraft, jet engines, and their associated parts to eliminate the threat to impair the national security of the United States, including if the agreements directed to be negotiated are not entered into within 180 days of the proclamation, are not being carried out, or are ineffective. 

ADDRESSING THE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: President Trump recognizes that commercial aircraft, jet engines, and associated parts are essential to the operation of key sectors of the U.S. economy that support our national security. 

• The United States Government uses large commercial aircraft to support national defense requirements such as performing essential military operations, responding to emergencies, conducting official travel, and transporting cargo and troops. 
• The U.S. aircraft industry is currently facing challenges to meet economic and national security demands because decades of foreign government market interventions have unfairly eroded our producers’ global market share. This has led to a diminished domestic manufacturing capacity, the loss of skilled workers, industry consolidation, and rising costs of production.  
• Without a robust domestic commercial aerospace ecosystem, U.S. defense industries and services that depend on the domestic commercial aerospace industry will face further rising costs, supply uncertainty, and backlogs in orders of military aircraft, engines, and parts.
• The U.S. commercial aircraft manufacturing sector and its broader industrial base are significant drivers of high-value economic activity, industrial innovation, and wage growth for American workers.

BUILDING ON A RECORD OF SECURING CRITICAL INDUSTRIES: President Trump has long recognized that America’s national security and economic strength depend on restoring key sectors of our industrial base.

• In his first term, President Trump revolutionized international trade by using Section 232 to address decades of short-sighted, globalist trade policies that had allowed our domestic steel and aluminum industries to weaken, impairing our national security.
• Since returning to office, President Trump has continued taking actions under Section 232 to protect and strengthen domestic manufacturing critical for our national and economic security, including imposing and strengthening tariffs on key goods, such as steel, aluminum, copper, trucks and automobiles, timber, lumber, and pharmaceuticals.
• Through negotiations with foreign trading partners and the strategic use of tariffs, President Trump has secured trillions in private and foreign investment to bring American jobs and manufacturing back to the United States while diversifying global supply chains and reducing dependence on adversarial nations.