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Additional Import Duties on Goods from China and Hong Kong Announced

Posted by Timothy Miller on 2/3/25 5:00 PM

In an Executive Order published on February 1, 2025, President Trump announced that most goods imported from China and Hong Kong will be subject to an additional 10 percent ad valorem duty rate. These additional duty rates will be in addition to all other applicable duties, taxes, and fees beginning February 4, 2025.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published guidance in a Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS) bulletin on February 3, 2025, which provided the trade with details on the implementation of these new duties.

CBP outlines that the following products are excluded from the additional duties:

  • Articles such as food, clothing, and medicine intended to be used to “relieve human suffering.”
  • Informational materials “including but not limited to, publications, films, posters, phonograph records, photographs, microfilms, microfiche, tapes, compact disks, CD ROMs, artworks, and news wire feeds.”
  • Non-personal use Chinese and Hong Kong goods that were “were loaded onto a vessel at the port of loading, or in transit on the final mode of transport prior to entry into the United States, before 12:01 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 1, 2025” and are entered for consumption “on or after 12:01 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 4, 2025, and before 12:01 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on March 7, 2025.”

Products of China and Hong Kong must be admitted into a Foreign Trade Zone as privileged foreign status, except for goods that are eligible for domestic status. No duty drawback is available for these additional duties.

Products subject to the additional duties will be ineligible for de minimis and filers will be required to submit an appropriate formal or informal entry to pay all applicable duties, taxes, and fees.

President Trump’s Executive Order can be read here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/imposing-duties-to-address-the-synthetic-opioid-supply-chain-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china/

CBP’s Guidance on these additional duties can be read here:
https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDHSCBP-3d062f4?wgt_ref=USDHSCBP_WIDGET_2

Topics: China, Hong Kong

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