WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Trade Representative’s office said on Wednesday it has reinstated 352 expired product exclusions from U.S. “Section 301” tariffs on Chinese imports, well short of the 549 exclusions that it was previously considering.
The reinstated product exclusions will be effective retroactively from Oct. 12, 2021, and extend through Dec. 31, 2022, USTR said. They cover a wide range of the initially estimated $370 billion worth of Chinese imports that former president Donald Trump hit with punitive tariffs of 7.5% to 25%.
The list released by USTR includes industrial components such as pumps and electric motors, certain car parts and chemicals, backpacks, bicycles, vacuum cleaners and other consumer goods.
A spokeswoman at China’s commerce ministry said on Thursday the U.S. decision was beneficial to normalizing the trade flow of those products, and hoped bilateral trade relations would get back on a normal track.
“Amid inflation spikes and challenges to the global economic recovery, we hope the U.S. could scrap all tariffs on Chinese products as soon as possible for the fundamental interests of consumers and producers in China and the U.S.,” spokeswoman Shu Jueting told reporters.
The Trump administration initially granted more than 2,200 exclusions to the tariffs to provide relief to certain industries and retailers. Most were allowed to expire, but 549 were extended for a year, and these expired at the end of 2020.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai last October launched a review of whether to reinstate those 549 exclusions as part of her strategy to confront China on its trade practices.
A series of virtual meetings with her Chinese counterparts since then yielded little improvement in China’s performance under Trump’s “Phase 1” trade agreement with Beijing.
华盛顿，3 月 23 日（路透社）——美国贸易代表办公室周三表示，它已恢复对 352 项过期产品的排除，从美国对中国进口的“301 条款”征收关税，远低于其之前考虑的 549 项排除。
美国贸易代表办公室表示，恢复的产品排除将从 2021 年 10 月 12 日起追溯生效，并延长至 2022 年 12 月 31 日。它们涵盖了最初估计价值 3700 亿美元的中国进口产品，前总统唐纳德特朗普以 7.5% 至 25% 的惩罚性关税打击了这些进口产品。
美国贸易代表办公室发布的清单包括工业零部件，如泵和电动机、某些汽车零部件和化学品、背包、自行车、吸尘器和其他消费品。
中国商务部发言人周四表示，美方的决定有利于这些产品的贸易正常化，希望双边贸易关系能够回到正常轨道。
“在通胀飙升和全球经济复苏面临挑战的情况下，我们希望美国尽快取消对中国产品的所有关税，以维护中美两国消费者和生产者的根本利益，”发言人舒珏廷对记者说。
特朗普政府最初批准了 2200 多项关税豁免，以减轻某些行业和零售商的负担。大多数被允许到期，但 549 被延长了一年，这些在 2020 年底到期。
去年 10 月，美国贸易代表凯瑟琳·戴 (Katherine Tai) 开始审查是否恢复这 549 项豁免，作为她在贸易行为上对抗中国的战略的一部分。
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