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Following the US Trade Representative (USTR)'s Section 301 investigation findings released on 22 March 2018, the US President announced that the US would impose additional tariffs on certain Chinese imports and take other actions. In this relation, the USTR has announced lists of Mainland products subject to additional tariffs and, in response, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council of China has announced relevant responsive measures. After rounds of trade talks, the US and China signed the Phase One trade agreement on 15 January 2020.
Pursuant to the statutory four-year review findings of the tariff actions taken under the Section 301 investigation on Mainland products, the USTR announced on 13 September 2024 and 11 December 2024 to impose additional Section 301 duties or increase the rate of Section 301 duties on certain Mainland products in 14 strategic sectors, with effect from 27 September 2024, 1 January 2025 or 1 January 2026. The 14 strategic sectors are battery parts (non-lithium-ion batteries); electric vehicles; facemasks; lithium-ion electrical vehicle batteries; lithium-ion non-electrical vehicle batteries; medical gloves; natural graphite; other critical minerals; permanent magnets; semiconductors; ship to shore cranes; solar cells (whether or not assembled into modules); steel and aluminium products; and syringes and needles.
Lists of products subject to additional tariffs of the US and the Mainland are set out in the table below. For further details, please refer to:
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(The Additional Tariff Levels in this table are subject to the tariff modifications in the above-mentioned USTR's announcements on 13 September 2024 and 11 December 2024, with effect from 27 September 2024, 1 January 2025 or 1 January 2026)
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| List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 | |||
| List 4A (See Annex A) |
List 4B (See Annex C) |
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| Effective Date | 6 July 2018 | 23 August 2018 | 24 September 2018 | 1 September 2019 | Suspended (originally scheduled for 15 December 2019) |
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| No. of Tariff Lines | 818 | 279 | 5,733 | 3,233 | 550 | |
| Total Value of Products | US$34 billion | US$16 billion | US$200 billion | US$300 billion | ||
| Additional Tariff Level | 25% (15 October 2019: 30% - Suspended) |
15% (14 February 2020: 7.5%) |
15% (suspended) |
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| First List | Second List | Third List | |||||
| List 1A | List 1B | ||||||
| Effective Date | 6 July 2018 | 23 August 2018 | 24 September 2018 | 1 September 2019 | Tentatively not be implemented (originally scheduled for 15 December 2019) |
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| No. of Tariff Lines | 545 | 333 | 5,207 | 1,717 | 3,361 | ||
| Total Value of Products | US$34 billion | US$16 billion | US$60 billion | US$75 billion | |||
| Additional Tariff Level | 25% | 25% | 5% to 25% | 5% or 10% (2.5% or 5% starting from 13:01 on 14 February 2020) |
5% or 10% (tentatively not be implemented) |
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Products granted temporary suspension from the additional tariffs (originally resumes on 15 December 2019 - tentatively not be implemented) -
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Products excluded pursuant to exclusion request mechanism -
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| First Batch |
First exclusion (updated), Second exclusion (updated)
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| Second Batch |
First exclusion (updated), Second exclusion (updated)
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