The Office of the United States Trade Representative announced the extension of exclusions in the Section 301 Investigation of China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation. The exclusions were previously scheduled to expire on May 31, 2025. The exclusions have been extended through August 31, 2025.
The revised extension period now applies to qualifying commodities that are entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouses for consumption, from 12:01 a.m. EST on June 1, 2025, until 11:59 p.m. EDT on August 31, 2025.
The extended product exclusions encompass 164 specific items, a continuation of the group previously renewed on May 30, 2024. These cover a range of intermediate goods and components, including semiconductor parts, telecommunications hardware, aerospace items, and elements for medical devices.
The extension also maintains relief for 14 categories of solar manufacturing equipment, originally exempted on September 18, 2024. This includes machinery essential in the production of solar panels, such as wafer slicers, cell interconnection systems, module laminators, and other balance-of-system manufacturing equipment.
No additional product exclusions were introduced under this latest extension, meaning that relief is limited to goods previously covered in the 2024 extensions.
