United States proclamation finds wind turbine imports threaten national security under Section 232 and orders negotiations, without new tariffs

22 October 2026

A Presidential proclamation titled 'Adjusting Imports of Wind Turbines and Their Parts and Components into the United States' was issued on October 22, 2026.
The proclamation records that within the past 90 days the Secretary of Commerce transmitted a report on his investigation into the effects of imports of wind turbines and their parts and components on the national security of the United States under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended, 19 U.S.C. 1862.
The Secretary advised that wind turbines and their components and subcomponents are being imported under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security of the United States.
Among the findings recorded are that products used to generate and use wind energy rely on foreign parts carrying cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could lead to remote control access to wind turbines and cause power disruption, that they interfere with national airspace and air safety, and that they cause radar interference affecting air traffic control, weather forecasting, homeland security and national defense missions.
The proclamation itself imposes no new duty: it directs the Secretary of Commerce and the Trade Representative to pursue or continue negotiations of agreements to address the national security threat, to update the President on them with at least one update within 180 days, and to keep monitoring imports and report any circumstances indicating a need for further action under section 232.
It notes that certain wind turbine components are made of significant amounts of aluminium, steel or copper and are therefore already subject to the tariffs imposed in Proclamation 9704 of March 8, 2018 on aluminium, Proclamation 9705 of March 8, 2018 on steel and Proclamation 10962 of July 30, 2025 on copper, and that nothing in the new proclamation modifies those tariffs.