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Ref. : EIC 111/2/18
EIC 111/3
EIC 111/3/13
CR EIC 111/1/13/3

30 May 2022
(Last updated on 24 October 2022)

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 429/2022

US : Section 301 Tariffs on Mainland Products - Extension of 81 Medical-care Products from Additional Tariffs until 30 November 2022 to Address COVID-19 Pandemic

Further to Commercial Information Circular (CIC) no. 782/2021 of 11 November 2021, the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced on 28 May 2022 to further extend the exclusions for the 81 medical-care products until 30 November 2022, in order to address the COVID-19 Pandemic.

DETAILS

2.Since July 2018, the US has imposed additional tariffs on Mainland products worth approximately US$370 billion under the Section 301 investigation in four tranches (Lists 1-3: 25%; List 4A: 7.5%). The USTR also initiated exclusion processes for stakeholders to submit requests for the exclusion of specific products from the additional tariffs. Subsequently, 99 items of medical-care products to address the COVID-19 pandemic have been excluded from the additional tariffs until 14 November 2021. Among them, 81 of these 99 medical-care products were further extended until 31 May 2022, in order to address the COVID-19 Pandemic. For details, please refer to CIC Nos. 915/2020, 619/2021, 676/2021 and 782/2021 of 24 December 2020, 30 August 2021, 29 September 2021 and 11 November 2021 respectively.

3.On 28 May 2022, the USTR announced to further extend the exclusions for the 81 medical-care products (originally due to expire on 31 May 2022) until 30 November 2022, in order to address the COVID-19 Pandemic.

4.For further details, please refer to the Federal Register notice (3 June 2022) at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-06-03/pdf/2022-11884.pdf and subsequent technical amendments (14 October 2022) at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-10-14/pdf/2022-22354.pdf

ENQUIRIES

5.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact Miss K Y HO at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Sandra Fung)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

Note: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.