Making good on its warnings during the last few weeks and in retaliation for the U.S. tariffs placed on steel and aluminum, China has placed new tariffs on 128 products bought from the U.S. According to a statement by the Chinese finance ministry, the new tariffs went into effect today, April 2. Eight imported U.S. products have had their rates increased by 25 percent; a new 15 percent tariff has also been placed on 120 imported U.S. commodities, including fruits.
The 25% tariff will apply primarily to pork products but also includes scrap aluminum.
- Aluminum scrap
- Fresh or cold boned pig forelegs, hindquarters, and their meat
- Other fresh or cold pork
- Other frozen whole head and half pork
- Frozen bone forelegs, pigs’ legs, and their meat
- Other frozen pork
- Frozen pork liver
- Other frozen pork chops
The 15% tariff applies primarily to fruit and nut products, as well as steel piping.
- Dried coconut
- Coconut without inner shell
- Other coconut
- Unhulled Brazilian nuts
- Shelled Brazilian nuts
- Unshelled cashews
- Shelled cashew
- Unshelled almonds
- Shelled almonds
- Hazelnuts
- Unshelled hazelnuts
- Unshelled walnuts
- Walnut kernels
- Unhealed chestnut
- Other shelled chestnuts
- Unhulled pistachio fruit
- Hulled pistachi nut
- Other unhealed macadamia nuts
- Roasted macadamia nuts
- Betel nut fruit
- Pine nuts
- Other fresh or dried nuts
- Fresh or dried plantain
- Other fresh or dried bananas, except for plantains
- Fresh or dried dates
- Fresh or dried figs
- Fresh or dried pineapple
- Fresh or dried avocados
- Fresh or dried guava
- Fresh or dried mango
- Fresh or dried mangosteen
- Fresh or dried orange
- Other citrus (including mandarin and satsuma oranges)
- Clementine orange
- Virgin orange and similar hybrid citrus
- Grapefruit, including pomelo
- Lemons and limes
- Unlisted citrus fruit
- Fresh grapes
- Raisins
- Fresh watermelon
- Fresh cantaloupe
- Papaya
- Fresh apples
- Fresh pears
- Fresh sour cherries
- Other fresh cherries
- Peaches, including nectarines
- Fresh plum and promos
- Fresh strawberries
- Fresh raspberry, blackberry, mulberry and Logan berry
- Fresh cranberry and cowberry
- Kiwi
- Fresh durian
- Persimmon
- Fresh lychee
- Fresh longan
- Rumbatan
- Fresh sweet lychee
- Fresh carambola
- Fresh lotus fog
- Fresh pitaya
- Fruits not listed
- Frozen strawberries
- Frozen raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, rose hips, currant and gooseberries
- Frozen fruits and nuts, not listed
- Other temporarily preserved fruits and nut
- Fried apricots
- Mei Qiang and Li Gan
- Dried apples
- Dried longan and meat
- Dried persimmons
- Red dates
- Dried litchi
- Dried fruits not listed
- Assorted nuts or dried fruits
- Sparkling wine
- Other fresh brewed wines packing containers of 2-liters or less brewed with alcohol
- Wines brewed with other fresh grapes packed in 2-liter containers, but not more than 10 liters
- Wines made from other fresh grapes packed in containers of 10 liters or more
- Other items from grape juice wine
- Modified Ethanol and other alcohols of any concentration
- American ginseng
- Other fresh ginseng
- Unlisted ginseng
- Stainless steel pipes used for oil or gas piping or drilling (32 sizes of those)
