World's largest free trade bloc covering 15 Asia-Pacific nations. Key innovation: full cumulation allowing materials from any of 15 members to count toward origin requirements. Covers approximately 30% of global GDP and population. Separate tariff schedules apply per origin country.
Approximately 90% of tariff lines; over 65% at zero duty, remainder phased over 20 years
All major sectors: electronics, automotive, machinery, chemicals, textiles, agriculture, metals, energy, plastics
Product-Specific Rules per tariff line; RVC of 40% or CTC; full cumulation among all 15 RCEP members
Country-specific exclusion lists. Japan excludes rice, beef/pork, wheat, dairy, sugar. Phase-out periods up to 20 years.
Sample of HS codes with active preferential rates under this agreement.
| HS Code | Product | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Vegetables provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption — Other, preserved by sulphur dioxide gas | 0% | |
| Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor; Calendering or other rolling machines, other | 0% | |
| Vegetables provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption; Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables, other | 0% | |
| Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor — Ironing machines or wringers suitable for domestic use | 0% | |
| Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared — Onions | 0% | |
| Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor — Ironing machines or wringers suitable for domestic use |
To qualify for preferential rates under RCEP-ASEAN, your shipment needs a valid Certificate of Origin. Kickrate handles the documentation as your Importer of Record.
| 0% |
| 07119060 | Vegetables provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption — Other, preserved by sulphur dioxide gas | 0% |
| 84201010 | Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor — Of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of printed circuit substrates or printed circuits | 0% |
| 07119090 | Vegetables provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption; Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables, other | 0% |
| 84201010 | Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor — Of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of printed circuit substrates or printed circuits | 0% |
| 84199013 | Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric — Casings for cooling towers | 0% |
| 84199013 | Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric — Casings for cooling towers | 0% |
| 84196000 | Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric — Machinery for liquefying air or other gases | 0% |
| 84196000 | Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric — Machinery for liquefying air or other gases | 0% |
| 07122000 | Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared — Onions | 0% |
| 84195010 | Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric — Cooling towers | 0% |
| 07123100 | Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared — Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus | 0% |
| 84195010 | Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric — Cooling towers | 0% |
| 07123200 | Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared — Wood ears (Auricularia spp.) | 0% |
| 84194020 | Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric — Not electrically operated | 0% |
