China will slap steep new tariffs on beef imports starting next year, hitting shipments from the United States and other major suppliers with a 55 percent surcharge once annual quotas are exceeded, the country’s commerce ministry announced Wednesday.
The safeguard measure, set to begin January 1, 2026, will run for three years. Under the ruling, country-specific quotas will cap duty-free shipments—164,000 tons for U.S. beef in the first year—and any imports beyond those limits will incur the additional tariff on top of existing duties.
SingularitySG on
thats great news, anyway US-China relations doesnt matter anymore..
since for the last many years, US and allies have always used China as the convenient villain and bad guy..
Affectionate-Panic-1 on
First of all It’s a quota so the tariffs only apply over a certain threshold. Also, it’s not targeted at the US, it includes quotas for countries around the world.
The quota is 175k, last year without this law the imports from the US were 138k. So it would have to rise significantly for this tariff to apply.
It’s more of a nothingburger than the title suggests.
ShdwWzrdMnyGngg on
Terrible for the beef industry. Great for Americans in the short term. Beef prices will finally come down! For a while at least.
But seriously, this is very bad in the big picture.
corycrazie1 on
Just remember that China does not have a representative Republic and also China does not have to deal with 50 different heads of state and their legislations to get things passed. They can impose stuff unilaterally unlike in the United States. I wonder if this will strengthen Trump’s case for tariffs at the supreme Court.
5 Comments
From the article:
China will slap steep new tariffs on beef imports starting next year, hitting shipments from the United States and other major suppliers with a 55 percent surcharge once annual quotas are exceeded, the country’s commerce ministry announced Wednesday.
The safeguard measure, set to begin January 1, 2026, will run for three years. Under the ruling, country-specific quotas will cap duty-free shipments—164,000 tons for U.S. beef in the first year—and any imports beyond those limits will incur the additional tariff on top of existing duties.
thats great news, anyway US-China relations doesnt matter anymore..
since for the last many years, US and allies have always used China as the convenient villain and bad guy..
First of all It’s a quota so the tariffs only apply over a certain threshold. Also, it’s not targeted at the US, it includes quotas for countries around the world.
The quota is 175k, last year without this law the imports from the US were 138k. So it would have to rise significantly for this tariff to apply.
It’s more of a nothingburger than the title suggests.
Terrible for the beef industry. Great for Americans in the short term. Beef prices will finally come down! For a while at least.
But seriously, this is very bad in the big picture.
Just remember that China does not have a representative Republic and also China does not have to deal with 50 different heads of state and their legislations to get things passed. They can impose stuff unilaterally unlike in the United States. I wonder if this will strengthen Trump’s case for tariffs at the supreme Court.