RCEP tariff schedule for Chinese goods. Product-specific reduction timelines separate from ACFTA, giving traders an additional pathway for preferential 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square) — Nickel-iron | 0% | |
| Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 85.45 — For domestic appliances | 0% | |
| Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28; Other apparatus for transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network); Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus; Other transmission apparatus, other | 0% | |
| Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28 — Smartphones |
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| 0% |
| 85176243 | Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28; Other apparatus for transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network); Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus; Apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems, other | 0% |
| 85176243 | Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28; Other apparatus for transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network); Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus; Apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems, other | 0% |
| 85318029 | Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 85.12 or 85.30; Other apparatus; Flat panel displays (including electro-luminescence, plasma and other technologies), other | 0% |
| 85340020 | Printed circuits — Double-sided | 0% |
| 85340020 | Printed circuits — Double-sided | 0% |
| 85319090 | Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 85.12 or 85.30; Parts, other | 0% |
| 85312000 | Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 85.12 or 85.30 — Indicator panels incorporating liquid crystal devices (LCD) or light-emitting diodes (LED) | 0% |
| 85334000 | Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors — Other variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers | 0% |
| 85334000 | Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors — Other variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers | 0% |
| 85322900 | Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set); Other fixed capacitors, other | 0% |
| 85319030 | Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 85.12 or 85.30 — Of other bells or sound signalling apparatus | 0% |
| 85331010 | Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors — Surface mounted | 0% |
| 85321000 | Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set) — Fixed capacitors designed for use in 50/60 Hz circuits and having a reactive power handling capacity of not less than 0.5 kvar (power capacitors) | 0% |
| 76151010 | Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, of aluminium; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of aluminium; sanitary ware and parts thereof, of aluminium — Pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like | 0% |
| 76151010 | Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, of aluminium; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of aluminium; sanitary ware and parts thereof, of aluminium — Pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like | 0% |
| 85299020 | Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.24 to 85.28 — Of decoders | 0% |
