China and US Plan Tariff Concessions on About US$30 Billion in Goods
China and the US announced tariff concession arrangements covering about US$30 billion in goods, including multiple homeware, toy and daily-use product categories, but no uniform effective date has been announced.
What are the key facts?
- 1China and the US announced tariff concessions covering about US$30 billion in goods
- 2US imports from China cover 77 categories
- 3Chinese imports from the US cover approximately 1,619 categories
- 4More than 90% of relevant products may be subject to most-favored-nation tariff rates
- 5The arrangements still require domestic legal procedures and formal implementation documents
- 6The report did not specify a uniform effective date for all categories
What happened?
The South China Morning Post reported on September 28, 2026, that China and the US announced tariff concession arrangements covering about US$30 billion in goods on each side. The arrangements cover 77 categories of US imports from China and approximately 1,619 categories of Chinese imports from the US. According to information from China’s Ministry of Commerce cited in the report, more than 90% of the products on the relevant lists may be subject to most-favored-nation tariff rates, and some previously reciprocal tariffs will be removed. The goods include homeware, toys, holiday decorations, and kitchen and dining products, categories commonly sold by cross-border ecommerce sellers in the US market. However, the arrangements still require both countries to complete their respective domestic legal procedures and issue formal implementation documents. The report did not specify a uniform effective date for all categories, so the arrangements cannot currently be treated as an executed tariff-rate change. Affected parties include Chinese suppliers and US importers bringing homeware, toys, holiday gifts, kitchenware and daily-use products into the US.
What does this mean for cross-border sellers?
The tariff concession arrangements cover common US-market categories including homeware, toys, holiday decorations, and kitchen and dining products, and could later affect import costs, margin calculations, and quotes. Because domestic legal procedures and formal implementation documents are still pending and no uniform effective date has been announced, do not directly adjust selling prices or DDP quotes to the new rates yet.
What should sellers do now?
- 1This week, organize HS/HTS codes by SKU for homeware, toys, holiday decorations, kitchen and dining products, and daily-use products on the US store; compare them with the approximately US$30 billion arrangement list and produce a “code—covered or not—items requiring confirmation” table, marking all unmatched items for manual review.HS duty estimate
- 2This week, for the 77 categories of US imports from China, calculate homeware and toy Listing costs under both the current quotation basis and potentially applicable most-favored-nation tariff rates; retain both sets of results and do not change selling prices or DDP quotes before formal documents are issued.Profit calculator
- 3This week, create a tariff implementation monitoring sheet tracking formal implementation documents, the customs enforcement date, and updates to carriers’ customs-clearance systems; until all three are confirmed, keep the existing values on quotation pages for all relevant SKUs and retain inspection screenshots.