Donald Trump's government will free 110 Chinese products from medical equipment to the main capacitors of high US import tariffs.
The list of exemptions from the dispute import tariff for this trade war will provide relief from the tariff of 25 percent of the United States worth US $ 34 billion (Rp 480 trillion) of Chinese imports on July 6, 2018, according to Reuters report, July 10, 2019.
The United States and China will resume negotiations this week after two months of negotiations ended in a row, a year since the trade war began. Washington encouraged Beijing to improve trade practices, which Trump claimed were unfair and illegal.
Exception rates by the US Trade Representative Office (USTR) followed 1,000 other exceptions given last year. The United States has collected Chinese import tariffs of US $ 250 billion (Rp. 3,532 trillion) and has threatened to impose another US $ 300 billion (Rp. 4.239 trillion) in import tariffs.
The threat was suspended after a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit in Osaka. Both agreed to resume trade war negotiations.
USTR has excluded components in Medtronic devices used to treat liver tumors, one in 12 exception requests given to the largest medical device maker in the world. The company believes that the R & D component, most at risk for intellectual property theft, is not produced in China.
Palo Alto Networks, a cybersecurity company, also received a waiver for one of the imported electronic components from China, a tantalum capacitor used to control electricity flow in its network firewall equipment.
The company said component replacements were not produced in the United States and that the devices did not fall below the high-tech goals of the 2025 Made in China industry development program, which according to the Trump administration was subsidized unfairly and contributed to the theft of US intellectual property.
Varian Medical Systems was also given an exception for some radiotherapy equipment after arguing that tariffs would only harm them because there were no other alternatives available.
The variant said the tariff would hurt him against his European rivals.
In May, USTR rejected 5,311 of nearly 13,000 requests to be excluded.
One that was rejected was Tesla, who asked for the exclusion of import tariffs for some Chinese-made circuits for its vehicles, because the USTR was considered strategically important for the Made in China 2025 program.