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Commercial Information Circulars

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e-mail address : enquiry@tid.gov.hk

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

24 November 2022
(Updated on 30 November 2022)

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 924/2022

US : Section 301 Tariffs on Mainland Products - Extension of 81 Medical-care Products from Additional Tariffs until 28 February 2023 to Address COVID-19 Pandemic

Further to Commercial Information Circular (CIC) no. 429/2022 of 30 May 2022, the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced on 23 November 2022 to further extend the exclusions for the 81 medical-care products until 28 February 2023, 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 30 November 2022, in order to address the COVID-19 Pandemic. For details, please refer to CIC Nos. 782/2021 and 429/2022 of 11 November 2021 and 30 May 2022 respectively.

3.On 23 November 2022, the USTR announced to further extend the exclusions for the 81 medical-care products (originally due to expire on 30 November 2022) until 28 February 2023, in order to address the COVID-19 Pandemic.

4.For further details, please refer to the Federal Register notice of 29 November 2022 at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-11-29/pdf/2022-25990.pdf.

ENQUIRIES

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

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Kwany KOU)
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.