The President issued a memorandum on April 11, 2025 providing clarification of exceptions under Executive Order 14257 of April 2, 2025. In this EO, the President stated that certain goods are not subject to the ad valorem rates of duty under that order.  Some of the excepted products are chips, computers, and smartphones.

The memorandum of April 11, 2025 notes that products classified in the following headings and subheadings of the HTSUS are included:

8471, 8473.30, 8486, 8517.13.00, 8517.62.00, 8523.51.00, 8524, 8528.52.00, 8541.10.00, 8541.21.00, 8541.29.00, 8541.30.00, 8541.49.10, 8541.49.70, 8541.49.80, 8541.49.95, 8541.51.00, 8541.59.00, 8541.90.00, and 8542.

Any duties collected at or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on April 5, 2025 are eligible for refunds in accordance with US CBP procedures.  JAS Forwarding (USA) Inc. is reviewing past entries to see if any updates can be made and our branches will reach out to confirm approval to process.

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The President has posted on Truth Social that as a result of China’s actions, he is increasing the tariff rate charged to China by the United States to 125%, effective immediately.

Additionally, the President has authorized a 90 day PAUSE on higher country rate reciprocal tariffs (Excluding China) because of more than 75 affected countries reaching out to the US to negotiate a solution.  

During this time, the 10% reciprocal tariff that went into effect on April 5, 2025 on all countries will continue.

These changes are effective immediately per the posting.  This has not been formally announced and we are awaiting the official notice.

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The White House Press Secretary announced today April 8, 2025 that the President is set to impose an additional 50% on Chinese imports.  The additional 50% is set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. EDT on April 9, 2025.  

The official written notice from the White House has not yet been released so it is unclear under which program (IEEPA or others) this additional 50% will be implemented under.

Update- 4/9/2025- The President issued and executive order on April 8, 2025, "Amendment To Reciprocal Tariffs and Updated Duties as Applied to Low-Value Imports From the People's Republic of China." The order updates the reciprocal rate of duty for goods of China to 84% replacing the previous rate of 34% (for reciprocal tariffs).

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