China Tariff Exclusion Process For US Imports

Both US and China have imposed additional tariffs on each other's imports in the course of their ongoing trade war. However, both countries have put in place a tariff exclusion process to exclude certain products from additional tariffs.

In this article, China Briefing explains the China tariff exclusion process. (See here for our article explaining the US tariff exclusion process.)

On May 13, 2019, China's Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council released the Trail Measures on the Exclusion Work for US Products Subject to Additional Tariffs in Announcement [2019] No.2.

On a trial basis, the document allows imported US products to be temporarily exempted from additional tariffs; tariffs can be refunded for the eligible products that have already been taxed.