Global Tariff Updates

Hurricane’s data-driven APIs are updated real time in line with changes to tariffs and compliance processing rules. Given the state of flux with the USA at the moment and the imposition of new additional tariffs, this page will be updated potentially several times a day.

USA General

We are closely monitoring the volatile situation with the imposition of tariffs by the current US Administration, and any and all changes imposed by them, or in retaliation by other nations, will be automatically applied by Hurricane systems from the point they apply.

As of 7th Aug the range of proposed additional tariffs have been applied to 71 nations including Japan, South Africa, Brazil and the EU. These additional tariffs range from 15% to 50%. Hurricane are ready with these updates, and they are already live on our services.

Canada has increased from 25% to 35% across any imports not subject to USMCA, this change is not applicable to automotive and metal products such as steel, iron and aluminium, which went live at 1st Aug 00:01 EST.

Russia, Belarus, Cuba and North Korea are exempt from this as USA believes there are sufficent tariffs in place already, and trade with these nations is insignificant.

We are also aware that there are exemptions, across all nations for critical minerals, lumber, pharmaceutical products and semiconductors, that are implicit in the Executive Orders. Where copper had previously had an exemption, there is now a global 50% tariff on all semi-finished, and intensively derived copper products imports.

The additional processing for low value shipments and the removal of de minimis for Mainland China (CN), Hong Kong (HK) and Macau (MO) will go live on 2nd May. Hurricnane’s API is ready for the changes and the flexibility we have built in to it by design mean that these changes will be easy to implement for our clients. In Summary these will be as follows:

For items being transited using express services the $800 deminimis rate is removed and all applicable duties must be paid
For items transiting using the postal network the shipper can elect to have duty calculated in one of two ways:
– A flat rate of 54% per line item
– A flat fee of $100 per line item
The shipper can notify which method will be used, however all shipments must be then treated using the same method. Th shipper can change methods on a periodic basis – indicated as typically mothly, by prior notice to CBP of at least 24 hours.

Please get in touch to find out how we can help you avoid errors in cross border processing, in this ever changing world.

Iron and Steel Imports into USA

Russia

A 200% additional duty will applied to Aluminium and associated products imported into the USA.

Rest of the World

Aluminium now carries a rate of 50% for all countries, the same for iron and steel, with the exception of UK which has a lower rate of 25% based on the recent trade agreement.

Retaliatory Tariffs

China

China has issued a statement on retaliatory duties to be levied against USA manufactured goods:

It has stated it will implement a 15% tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas products as well as a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery and large-engine cars imported from the US from 10 February.
As of 9th April it has reduced the additional punitive rate to 10% on all imports from USA. This compounds with the above 10% and 15% rates.

Canada

Canada has imposed its own tariffs on imports from USA that have had two revisions now. The list of products covered is exhaustive, and can be read in more detail here:

The initial list can be found by clicking here.

The most recent list introduced on 13th March can be found by clicking here.

Mexico

As of the date of this article the USA and Mexico have agreed a further 30 day delay on tariffs being applied and as such we expect the retaliatory Mexican punitive tariffs to also be suspended.