USTR: Which Exports to and Imports From China Should See Tariff Reductions?
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is seeking comments on what products should be imported from China with reduced Section 301 tariffs, or only at most favored nation rates. It's also asking which products it should ask China to roll tariffs back on to its MFN rate.
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Comments are due July 10, it said in a Federal Register notice shared the evening of June 2.
In addition to Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes at the 8-digit level, USTR would like to know:
- What types of Chinese products have few or no "issues related to economic and national security and supply chain resilience risks?"
- For proposed goods, what was the average annual value of imports from China during 2022-2024?
- Which consumers would benefit from lower tariffs on this good, and would any be harmed?
- Which U.S. producers and workers would benefit from lower tariffs on this good, and would any be harmed?
- Did higher tariffs on this good cause a tariff inversion on a U.S. manufactured good? What was the difference between the tariff on the component and the finished good?
- What is China’s share of U.S. imports of the product proposed for lower tariffs?
- What was the average annual value of U.S. exports of a good that commenters want China to drop tariffs on?
- If the good is an industrial product, have exports to China declined significantly in recent years?
- Is it a product "subject to multiple Chinese tariff actions or exceptionally high Chinese tariffs?"
- Are there exports that are facing higher tariffs in China where purchases have not fallen significantly, "or for which China appears to be reliant on U.S. exports?"
- "How should the U.S.-China Board of Trade assess when, and whether, to modify the composition or scope" of the goods slated for tariff relief?
The notice said that China is a strategic competitor, and that China balked at a more ambitious effort to change the two countries' trade relations during the first Trump administration. "The U.S.-China Board of Trade is a positive way to manage the realities of the U.S.-China economic relationship and the imperative to defend American workers and industries from negative aspects of trading with China," it said.
Comments can be submitted at https://comments.ustr.gov/s/, docket number USTR-2026-0430.