Fitness Industry Trade Group Wrongly Tells Members List 3 China Tariffs Remain at 10%
Misinformation abounded in a Section 301 tariffs “update” the Sports & Fitness Industry Association sent to its membership Wednesday. List 3 tariffs “currently at 10% on $200 billion in imports,” wrongly said one bullet point. “President has threatened to raise…
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them to 25%.” President Donald Trump did hike List 3 to 25 percent May 10 when his administration accused China of reneging on previous commitments in the trade talks (see 1905060015). Another errant bullet point said the new 10 percent List 4A tariffs taking effect Sept. 1 (see 1908130028) “will be applied to any product not entered for U.S. consumption by midnight August 30, 2019.” The actual deadline is midnight Aug. 31. We brought the errors to the attention of SFIA, where a spokesperson emailed Wednesday that “all is corrected now.”