On July 10, 2018, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) issued a statement on proposed action of an additional 10% duty on products of China worth approximately $200 billion.
The USTR lists out 6,031 tariff subheadings in an annex to the announcement that will be subject to the 10% ad valorem duty. This action by the USTR is in response to a directive from the President to identify additional trade remedy actions that the US could take in response to China’s retaliatory tariffs based on US imposition of 25% tariffs on $34B USD in Chinese imports.
The USTR will seek public comments and will hold a public hearing for the proposed additional tariffs with several dates for each:
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July 27, 2018 - Due date for filing requests to appear and a summary of expected testimony at the public hearing, and for filing pre-hearing submissions;
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August 17, 2018 - Due date for submission of written comments;
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August 20-23, 2018 - The Section 301 Committee will convene a public hearing in the main hearing room of the U.S. International Trade Commission;
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August 30, 2018 - Due date for submission of post-hearing rebuttal comments.
The USTR strongly suggests that concerned parties make electronic submission through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov and to use docket number USTR-2018-0026.
The USTR’s statement may be found here:
The USTR’s Federal Register Notice may be found here and will be published in the next few days:
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/301/2018-0026%20China%20FRN%207-10-2018_0.pdf
