China extends pause on 24 percent US tariff two months

China's Customs Tariff Commission said it will keep its additional 24 percent tariff on US goods suspended for two more months from November 10, retaining the 10 percent rate, a far shorter extension than the one-year pause it replaces.

Why it matters: The two-month rollover, against a full year last time, keeps the trade truce on a short leash into January, weeks before an expected Trump-Xi meeting at the APEC summit in China, and Beijing warned it is watching Washington's plan to replace its struck-down emergency tariffs with Section 301 duties.

Data as of The tariff figures, effective time and two-month term are from the Customs Tariff Commission's own announcement, published on the Ministry of Finance website on November 9, 2026 and read in full in Chinese in this run via a JRJ reproduction; Reuters and Bloomberg reporting of November 8 to 9, 2026, read in full, corroborates the terms and adds the Transport Ministry port-fee extension. The prior one-year suspension ran from November 10, 2025. Developing item.

China will keep its additional 24 percent tariff on US goods suspended for two more months, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council announced on Monday, adjusting the measures set out in its 2025 Announcement No. 4 with State Council approval. The suspension takes effect at 13:01 Beijing time on Tuesday, November 10, and the 10 percent additional rate on US imports stays in place. The commission said the move implements the consensus reached at the Washington meeting between the two countries’ leaders. Bloomberg reported that the Transport Ministry, in a separate statement, also extended China’s suspension of special port fees on American ships until January 10.

The short term is the signal. The suspension being replaced ran a full year from November 10, 2025, and was due to expire this week; this rollover runs only to January, ahead of next week’s APEC summit in China, where President Donald Trump expects to meet President Xi Jinping. In its accompanying statement the commission said China had noted that the United States has repeatedly said it intends to use Section 301 tariffs to replace the emergency-power tariffs struck down by the courts, and that Beijing would monitor that and adjust its own measures as appropriate.

China extends pause on 24 percent US tariff two months

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