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Ref. :EIC 111/3
EIC 111/3/13
3 November 2025
Dear Sirs,
Further to Commercial Information Circulars (CICs) No. 197/2025, 697/2025 and 741/2025 dated 4 March 2025, 12 August 2025 and 29 August 2025 on the US’ additional duties on products of China (including Hong Kong) and the US’ exclusions for certain products from Section 301 tariffs on Mainland products respectively, on 1 November 2025, the US published a White House’s fact sheet on the US’ reaching a trade and economic deal with China.
2.Pursuant to the executive order signed by the US President dated 1 February 2025, all articles that are products of China shall be subject to an additional 10% ad valorem rate of duty with effect from 4 February 2025. On 5 February 2025, the US Customs and Border Protection announced that the concerned articles include products of Hong Kong. Subsequently, on 3 March 2025, the US amended the additional duties on products of China (including products of Hong Kong) from 10% to 20% effective from 4 March 2025.
3.On 2 April 2025, the US President signed an executive order imposing reciprocal tariff on all imports from all trading partners effective from 5 April 2025, with subsequent modifications. On 12 May 2025, pursuant to the joint statement on US-China economic and trade meeting in Geneva, the reciprocal tariff rate for articles of China (including articles of Hong Kong) shall be modified to 10% effective from 14 May 2025, by suspending 24 percentage points of the additional ad valorem rate of duty on articles of China (including articles of Hong Kong) set forth in Executive Order 14257 for an initial period of 90 days, and the retention of the remaining ad valorem rate of 10% on those articles pursuant to the terms of said order. Subsequently, pursuant to the joint statement on US-China economic and trade meeting in Stockholm issued on 11 August 2025, the 10% reciprocal tariff on articles of China (including articles of Hong Kong) remains in effect until 10 November 2025.
4.Regarding the US’ additional tariffs on certain Mainland products since July 2018 pursuant to the US’ Section 301 investigation findings released in March 2018, on 28 August 2025, the US announced the further extension of 178 exclusions from the US’ additional tariffs on Mainland products under the Section 301 investigation through 29 November 2025.
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5.On 1 November 2025, the US published a White House’s fact sheet on reaching a trade and economic deal with China. Among others, effective from 10 November 2025, the US shall lower the tariffs on products of China (including products of Hong Kong) by removing 10 percentage points of the cumulative rate imposed since 4 March 2025. Besides, the US shall maintain its suspension of heightened reciprocal tariffs on products of China (including products of Hong Kong) until 10 November 2026 and the current 10% reciprocal tariff shall remain in effect during this suspension period. In addition, the US shall further extend the expiration of certain Section 301 tariff exclusions, currently due to expire on 29 November 2025, until 10 November 2026.
6.For further details, please refer to the White House’s fact sheet:
White House’s fact sheet (1 November 2025)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-strikes-deal-on-economic-and-trade-relations-with-china/
7.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact us at telephone number 2398 5405.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss Kwany KOU)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
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