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 |
|---|---|---|
| Collections and collectors' pieces of archaeological, ethnographic, historical, zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical, paleontological or numismatic interest — Collections and collectors' pieces of archaeological, ethnographic or historical interest | 0% | |
| Chamois (including combination chamois) leather; patent leather and patent laminated leather; metallised leather — Chamois (including combination chamois) leather | 0% | |
| Chamois (including combination chamois) leather; patent leather and patent laminated leather; metallised leather — Patent leather and patent laminated leather; metallised leather | 0% | |
| Chamois (including combination chamois) leather; patent leather and patent laminated leather; metallised leather — Patent leather and patent laminated leather; metallised leather | 0% | |
| Artificial fur and articles thereof — Artificial fur | 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.
| 43040010 |
| Artificial fur and articles thereof — Artificial fur |
| 0% |
| 41151000 | Composition leather with a basis of leather or leather fibre, in slabs, sheets or strip, whether or not in rolls; parings and other waste of leather or of composition leather, not suitable for the manufacture of leather articles; leather dust, powder and flour — Composition leather with a basis of leather or leather fibre, in slabs, sheets or strip, whether or not in rolls | 0% |
| 41151000 | Composition leather with a basis of leather or leather fibre, in slabs, sheets or strip, whether or not in rolls; parings and other waste of leather or of composition leather, not suitable for the manufacture of leather articles; leather dust, powder and flour — Composition leather with a basis of leather or leather fibre, in slabs, sheets or strip, whether or not in rolls | 0% |
| 43039020 | Articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other articles of furskin — Articles for industrial uses | 0% |
| 43040099 | Artificial fur and articles thereof, other | 0% |
| 43040099 | Artificial fur and articles thereof, other | 0% |
| 03028929 | Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04; Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0302.91 to 0302.99, other | 0% |
| 03031300 | Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04 — Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho hucho) | 0% |
| 03031900 | Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04; Salmonidae, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99, other | 0% |
| 56012100 | Wadding of textile materials and articles thereof; textile fibres, not exceeding 5 mm in length (flock), textile dust and mill neps — Of cotton | 0% |
| 56012100 | Wadding of textile materials and articles thereof; textile fibres, not exceeding 5 mm in length (flock), textile dust and mill neps — Of cotton | 0% |
| 44012100 | Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms — Coniferous | 0% |
| 56012210 | Wadding of textile materials and articles thereof; textile fibres, not exceeding 5 mm in length (flock), textile dust and mill neps — Cigarette tow | 0% |
| 56012210 | Wadding of textile materials and articles thereof; textile fibres, not exceeding 5 mm in length (flock), textile dust and mill neps — Cigarette tow | 0% |
| 56012290 | Wadding of textile materials and articles thereof; textile fibres, not exceeding 5 mm in length (flock), textile dust and mill neps; Wadding of textile materials and articles thereof; Of man-made fibres, other | 0% |
