Container ships are seen at the container terminal at Lianyungang
Container ships are seen at the container terminal at Lianyungang port, in China's eastern Jiangsu province in the early morning CN-STR/Getty Images

China will keep a 24% additional tariff on US goods suspended for another two months from 1:01 p.m. Beijing time on Tuesday, while a 10% additional tariff stays in place, the State Council's Customs Tariff Commission said on Monday.

The pause is much shorter than the last one. Beijing's renewal in November 2025, issued days after Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met in Busan, suspended the 24% for a year. The one before it, in August 2025, ran 90 days. Announcement No. 6 of 2026 amends the April 2025 order that imposed the tariffs in retaliation for Trump's "Liberation Day" duties.

The commission said the extension carries out what the two leaders agreed at their Washington meeting in September, and would help give companies on both sides a more stable, predictable policy environment. It also said it had noted repeated US statements that Washington plans to replace tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which have been ruled invalid, with Section 301 tariffs. China will keep watching Washington's next steps, it said, and adjust its countermeasures depending on what it sees.

The US Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs in February. On July 24, new Section 301 duties of 10% or 12.5% took effect on goods from 60 economies, China among them, under a notice the US Trade Representative issued the day before.

China's transport ministry also extended its suspension of special port fees on US-linked ships to Jan. 10, 2027, Reuters reported.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in September that the US-China truce, due to lapse on Nov. 10, would run to Jan. 10. Two months from Tuesday lands on the same date.

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