On April 2, President Trump announced new tariffs impacting a wide array of imported products from nearly all countries. Additional tariffs range from 10% to nearly 50% and become effective starting April 5. Concurrently, the President took action to again terminate the eligibility of Chinese-origin items for low-value shipment benefits, including duty-free treatment.

President Trump’s actions are intended to address “a lack of reciprocity in our bilateral trade relationships, disparate tariff rates and non-tariff barriers, and U.S. trading partners’ economic policies that suppress domestic wages and consumption, as indicated by large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits.” Invoking for a second time the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA), President Trump’s “Reciprocal Tariff” executive order imposes:

A list of all country-specific tariff rates can also be found here. These country-specific ad valorem rates of duty shall apply to all goods, including articles imported pursuant to the terms of all existing U.S. trade agreements, except as provided below.

If at least 20% of the value of any article imported into the U.S. is U.S.-originating, and that value is substantiated by the importer, then the newly announced reciprocal duties will be collected only on the non-U.S. content of the imported article.

Finally, concurrent with today’s actions imposing new tariffs as discussed above, President Trump also took further action to eliminate the ability of articles of country-of-origin China to utilize de minimis duty-free treatment. Generally, shipments valued at $800 or less have been eligible for duty-free entry under provisions allowing smoother entry for low-value shipments. However, concurrent with the Reciprocal Tariff Executive Order President Trump signed an executive order amending the prior China-related IEEPA executive orders to decree that effective 12:01 am ET on May 2, 2025, shipments of Chinese-origin items, including international postal packages sent to the United States through the international postal network from the PRC or Hong Kong, will be ineligible for de minimis treatment and duties will be collected

For all other items subject to the reciprocal tariff announcements, de minimis will be terminated as soon as Commerce notifies the President that systems are in place to collect duties on those shipments.

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