World's largest free trade bloc covering 15 Asia-Pacific nations. Key innovation: full cumulation allowing materials from any of 15 members to count toward origin requirements. Covers approximately 30% of global GDP and population. Separate tariff schedules apply per origin country.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Other fruit, fresh — Starfruit | 0% | |
| Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included — Processing units for personal (including portable) computers | 0% | |
| Other fruit, fresh — Salacca (snake fruit) | 0% | |
| Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snow-ploughs and snow-blowers — Tamping or compacting machinery | 0% | |
| Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snow-ploughs and snow-blowers — Tamping or compacting machinery | 0% | |
To qualify for preferential rates under RCEP-ASEAN, your shipment needs a valid Certificate of Origin. Kickrate handles the documentation as your Importer of Record.
| 84306900 |
| Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snow-ploughs and snow-blowers; Other machinery, not self-propelled, other |
| 0% |
| 84306900 | Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snow-ploughs and snow-blowers; Other machinery, not self-propelled, other | 0% |
| 84311013 | Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30 — Of goods of subheading 8425.11.00, 8425.31.00 or 8425.49.10 | 0% |
| 84311013 | Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30 — Of goods of subheading 8425.11.00, 8425.31.00 or 8425.49.10 | 0% |
| 84714990 | Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included; Other automatic data processing machines; Other, presented in the form of systems, other | 0% |
| 96019011 | Worked ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including articles obtained by moulding) — Cigar or cigarette cases, tobacco jars; ornamental articles | 0% |
| 84311022 | Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30 — Of goods of subheading 8425.19.00, 8425.39.00, 8425.41.00, 8425.42.10 or 8425.42.90 | 0% |
| 84311022 | Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30 — Of goods of subheading 8425.19.00, 8425.39.00, 8425.41.00, 8425.42.10 or 8425.42.90 | 0% |
| 84714990 | Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included; Other automatic data processing machines; Other, presented in the form of systems, other | 0% |
| 08109093 | Other fruit, fresh — Sapodilla (ciku fruit) | 0% |
| 84714910 | Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included — Personal computers excluding portable computers of subheading 8471.30 | 0% |
| 08109094 | Other fruit, fresh — Pomegranate (Punica spp.), soursop or sweetsops (Annona spp.), bell fruit (Syzygium spp., Eugenia spp.), marian plum (Bouea spp.), passion fruit (Passiflora spp.), cottonfruit (Sandoricum spp.), jujube (Ziziphus spp.) and tampoi or rambai (Baccaurea spp.) | 0% |
| 84714910 | Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included — Personal computers excluding portable computers of subheading 8471.30 | 0% |
| 08109099 | Other fruit, fresh, other | 0% |
| 84714190 | Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included; Other automatic data processing machines; Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined, other | 0% |
