USDA Report Highlights Food and Agriculture Targeted by China With Overlapping Retaliatory Tariffs

A recent Agriculture Department report lists the specific food and agriculture tariff lines included in planned new Chinese tariffs (see 1808030013). "The supplementary tariffs are primarily on products which had not been previously impacted by the [Sections] 232 and 301 initial retaliatory duties, with the exception of eight [Harmonized System] codes," the USDA said in its Global Agricultural Information Network report. The new tariffs would apply in addition to the previously imposed retaliatory tariffs, it said. The new tariffs were announced in response to proposed U.S. tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods under Section 301 (see 1808010070).

Overlapping tariffs would apply, at varying rates, to:

• Berries in 0811.20.00
• Frozen Fruit and Nuts in 0811.90.90
• Wines in 2204.10.00, 2204.21.00 and 2204.29.00
• Frozen Strawberries in 0811.10.00
• American Ginseng in 1211.20.10
• Other wine or grape must in 2204.22.00.