RCEP tariff schedule for Japanese goods. Important alternative pathway alongside AJCEP and IJEPA for preferential market access.
Approximately 90% of tariff lines; over 65% at zero duty, remainder phased over 20 years
All major sectors: electronics, automotive, machinery, chemicals, textiles, agriculture, metals, energy, plastics
Product-Specific Rules per tariff line; RVC of 40% or CTC; full cumulation among all 15 RCEP members
Country-specific exclusion lists. Japan excludes rice, beef/pork, wheat, dairy, sugar. Phase-out periods up to 20 years.
Sample of HS codes with active preferential rates under this agreement.
| HS Code | Product | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter — Industrial robots, not elsewhere specified or included | 0% | |
| Other forms (for example, rods, tubes and profile shapes) and articles (for example, discs and rings), of unvulcanised rubber — Camel-back' strips for retreading rubber tyres | 0% | |
| Other forms (for example, rods, tubes and profile shapes) and articles (for example, discs and rings), of unvulcanised rubber — Articles | 0% | |
| Other forms (for example, rods, tubes and profile shapes) and articles (for example, discs and rings), of unvulcanised rubber; Of natural gums, other | 0% | |
| Other forms (for example, rods, tubes and profile shapes) and articles (for example, discs and rings), of unvulcanised rubber; Of natural gums, other | 0% | |
To qualify for preferential rates under RCEP-Japan, your shipment needs a valid Certificate of Origin. Kickrate handles the documentation as your Importer of Record.
| 40070000 |
| Vulcanised rubber thread and cord |
| 0% |
| 40070000 | Vulcanised rubber thread and cord | 0% |
| 14011000 | Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark) — Bamboos | 0% |
| 14012010 | Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark) — Whole | 0% |
| 05071000 | Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products — Ivory; ivory powder and waste | 0% |
| 05080020 | Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof — Shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms | 0% |
| 05080020 | Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof — Shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms | 0% |
| 42033000 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of leather or of composition leather — Belts and bandoliers | 0% |
| 42034000 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of leather or of composition leather — Other clothing accessories | 0% |
| 42034000 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of leather or of composition leather — Other clothing accessories | 0% |
| 14012090 | Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark); Rattans, other | 0% |
| 40091210 | Tubes, pipes and hoses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber, with or without their fittings (for example, joints, elbows, flanges) — Mining slurry suction and discharge hoses | 0% |
| 40091290 | Tubes, pipes and hoses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber, with or without their fittings (for example, joints, elbows, flanges); Not reinforced or otherwise combined with other materials; With fittings, other | 0% |
| 40092110 | Tubes, pipes and hoses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber, with or without their fittings (for example, joints, elbows, flanges) — Mining slurry suction and discharge hoses | 0% |
| 40092110 | Tubes, pipes and hoses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber, with or without their fittings (for example, joints, elbows, flanges) — Mining slurry suction and discharge hoses | 0% |
