Chinese Retaliation for US Section 301 Duties May Include Tariffs on Medical Devices
A list of U.S. goods set to become subject to Chinese retaliatory tariffs includes some medical devices and chemicals of Chapter 29. In response to U.S. Section 301 tariffs on some $34 billion in goods set to take effect July…
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6, China will implement a 25 percent duty on 545 tariff lines that same day, it said in a statement. No pharmaceutical products of chapters 29 and 30 or medical devices of Chapter 90 are included in that first list. But a second list of suspended tariffs, mirroring a list put out by the U.S. of tariffs that will take effect at a later date after a period for comments, includes some products of Harmonized Tariff Schedule headings 2903, 2926 and 2934, as well as medical devices and equipment of subheadings 9018.13, 9018.19, 9018.50, 9018.90, 9022.14 and 9022.90. According to an informal translation, China said in its statement that the implementation date for tariffs on those goods will be announced separately.