Updated Nov 3rd 2025 – China Tariff 10% reduction

The White House released a fact sheet over the weekend summarizing the agreement reached between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea on October 30.

U.S. Actions:

• The U.S. will lower the tariffs on Chinese imports imposed to curb fentanyl flows by removing 10 percentage points of the cumulative rate, effective Nov. 10, 2025, and will maintain its suspension of heightened reciprocal tariffs on Chinese imports until Nov. 10, 2026. (The current 10% reciprocal tariff will remain in effect during this suspension period.)

• The U.S. will further extend the expiration of certain Section 301 tariff exclusions, currently due to expire on Nov. 29, 2025, until Nov. 10, 2026.

• The U.S. will suspend for one year, starting on Nov. 10, 2025, the implementation of the interim final rule titled Expansion of End-User Controls to Cover Affiliates of Certain Listed Entities.

• The U.S. will suspend for one year, starting on Nov. 10, 2025, implementation of the responsive actions taken pursuant to the Section 301 investigation on China’s Targeting the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance. In the meantime, the United States will negotiate with China pursuant to Section 301 while continuing its historic cooperation with South Korea and Japan on revitalizing American shipbuilding.

China Actions:

• China will suspend the global implementation of the expansive new export controls on rare earths and related measures that it announced on Oct. 9, 2025. 

• China will issue general licenses valid for exports of rare earths, gallium, germanium, antimony, and graphite for the benefit of U.S. end users and their suppliers around the world. The general license means the de facto removal of controls China imposed in April 2025 and October 2022.

• China will take significant measures to end the flow of fentanyl to the U.S. Specifically, China will stop the shipment of certain designated chemicals to North America and strictly control exports of certain other chemicals to all destinations in the world.

• China will suspend all the retaliatory tariffs that it has announced since March 4, 2025. This includes tariffs on a vast swath of U.S. agricultural products: chicken, wheat, corn, cotton, sorghum, soybeans, pork, beef, aquatic products, fruits, vegetables, and dairy products.

• China will suspend or remove all the retaliatory non-tariff countermeasures taken against the United States since March 4, 2025, including China’s listing of certain American companies on its end user and unreliable entity lists.

• China will purchase at least 12 million metric tons (MMT) of U.S. soybeans during the last two months of 2025 and also purchase at least 25 MMT of U.S. soybeans in each of 2026, 2027, and 2028. Additionally, China will resume purchases of U.S. sorghum and hardwood logs.

• China will take appropriate measures to ensure the resumption of trade from Nexperia’s facilities in China, allowing production of critical legacy chips to flow to the rest of the world.

• China will remove measures it took in retaliation for the U.S.’s announcement of a Section 301 investigation on China’s Targeting the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance, and remove sanctions imposed on various shipping entities.

• China will further extend the expiration of its market-based tariff exclusion process for imports from the U.S. and exclusions will remain valid until Dec. 31, 2026.

• China will terminate its various investigations targeting U.S. companies in the semiconductor supply chain, including its antitrust, anti-monopoly, and anti-dumping investigations.