{"id":893,"date":"2018-09-18T22:16:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/en\/?p=880"},"modified":"2018-09-18T22:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:16:42","slug":"the-boc-blast-267-09-18-2018-ustr-finalizes-tariffs-on-200-billion-of-chinese-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/the-boc-blast-267-09-18-2018-ustr-finalizes-tariffs-on-200-billion-of-chinese-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"The BOC Blast 267 09 18 2018 USTR Finalizes Tariffs on 200 Billion of Chinese Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nUSTR Finalizes Tariffs on $200 Billion of Chinese Imports<\/strong>
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\nPlease see below announcement from the Office of the United States Trade Representative. As to how this will be applied, instructions received are that CBP is to use the date of when the conveyance arrives at the first US port, even when an in-bond movement is involved. Entries can be filed before the freight arrives, so entry can have a file date before the implementation date, but if the actual conveyance arrival is after the effective date then the duties apply.<\/strong>
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\nWashington, DC \u2013 As part of the United States\u2019 continuing response to China\u2019s theft of American intellectual property and forced transfer of American technology, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) today released a list of approximately $200 billion worth of Chinese imports that will be subject to additional tariffs.\u00a0 In accordance with the direction of President Trump, the additional tariffs will be effective starting September 24, 2018, and initially will be in the amount of 10 percent.\u00a0 Starting January 1, 2019, the level of the additional tariffs will increase to 25 percent.
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\nThe list contains 5,745 full or partial lines of the original 6,031 tariff lines that were on a proposed list of Chinese imports announced on July 10, 2018.\u00a0 Changes to the proposed list were made after USTR and the interagency Section 301 Committee sought and received comments over a six-week period and testimony during a six-day public hearing in August.\u00a0 USTR engaged in a thorough process to rigorously examine the comments and testimony and, as a result, determined to fully or partially remove 297 tariff lines from the original proposed list.\u00a0 Included among the products removed from the proposed list are certain consumer electronics products such as smart watches and Bluetooth devices; certain chemical inputs for manufactured goods, textiles and agriculture; certain health and safety products such as bicycle helmets, and child safety furniture such as car seats and playpens.
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\nIn March 2018, USTR released the findings of its exhaustive Section 301 investigation that found China\u2019s acts, policies and practices related to technology transfer, intellectual property and innovation are unreasonable and discriminatory and burden or restrict U.S. commerce.
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\nSpecifically, the Section 301 investigation revealed:
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