United States Trade Representative Releases Final List Of Chinese Products Subject To 25 Percent Tariff -

Today, based on a review conducted by the interagency Section 301 Committee, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) released its final list of 818 Chinese products that will become subject to 25 percent tariffs (“List 1”). U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin to collect the duties for these 818 line items on July 6. In addition, USTR released a second list (“List 2”) that includes 284 new products to which 25 percent tariffs may become applicable after further review in a public notice and comment period.

As outlined in our prior client alerts, on March 22, 2018, President Trump instructed the United States Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer to implement tariffs on a list of products that benefit from China’s unfair industrial policies, particularly the “unfair and harmful acquisition of U.S. technology” by China.