Executive Order 14389: Ending Certain Tariff Actions

An executive order signed at the White House on Feb. 20, 2026, ends additional percentage-based import duties imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in nine earlier orders. The order, published in the Federal Register on Feb. 25, 2026, is Executive Order 14389, titled Ending Certain Tariff Actions.

The order says those additional duties shall no longer be in effect and, as soon as practicable, shall no longer be collected. It says the change follows recent events. The order does not say what those events were.

The duties covered are those imposed under the emergency-powers law in orders dated Feb. 1, 2025, concerning illicit drugs across the northern border, the situation at the southern border, and the synthetic opioid supply chain in the People’s Republic of China, each as amended. Also covered are a March 24, 2025, order imposing tariffs on countries importing Venezuelan oil, and an April 2, 2025, order on reciprocal tariffs tied to large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits, as amended.

The list also includes orders addressing threats to the United States by the governments of Brazil, dated July 30, 2025, as amended; the Russian Federation, dated Aug. 6, 2025, as amended; Cuba, dated Jan. 29, 2026; and Iran, dated Feb. 6, 2026.

The order says other actions taken to address the national emergencies in those orders are not affected if they do not impose the additional duties, or take steps needed to impose them, under the emergency-powers law. It says the national emergencies declared or described in those orders, or in subsequent orders, remain in effect.

The order directs the head of each executive department and agency to take all appropriate steps to end the duties. Each agency head shall immediately begin those steps and, as soon as practicable, terminate collection. An agency head may redelegate that authority within the agency, consistent with applicable law.

The Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the United States Trade Representative, as appropriate, shall decide whether changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States are needed. They are to consult, among other senior officials they consider appropriate, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Chair of the United States International Trade Commission. They may make needed schedule changes through a notice in the Federal Register.

The order says it does not affect an executive order of Feb. 20, 2026, on continuing the suspension of duty-free de minimis treatment for all countries, or a proclamation of the same date imposing a temporary import surcharge to address fundamental international payments problems. It affects only the additional duties imposed under the emergency-powers law in the orders named in its background section.

The order says it does not affect any other duties. That includes duties imposed under a national-security provision of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and a trade-enforcement provision of the Trade Act of 1974. It is to be carried out consistent with applicable law and subject to available appropriations. It says it does not create a right or benefit enforceable against the United States or its officers.