RCEP tariff schedule for Japanese goods. Important alternative pathway alongside AJCEP and IJEPA for preferential market access.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paintings, drawings and pastels, executed entirely by hand, other than drawings of heading 49.06 and other than hand-painted or hand-decorated manufactured articles; collages, mosaics and similar decorative plaques — Mosaics | 0% | |
| Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of heading 38.03, other | 0% | |
| Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine and other terpenic oils produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine and other crude para-cymene; pine oil containing alpha-terpineol as the main constituent — Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine oils | 0% | |
| Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums — Rosin and resin acids | 0% | |
| Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums — Run gums in blocks | 0% |
To qualify for preferential rates under RCEP-Japan, your shipment needs a valid Certificate of Origin. Kickrate handles the documentation as your Importer of Record.
| 38069010 | Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums — Run gums in blocks | 0% |
| 38062000 | Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums — Salts of rosin, of resin acids or of derivatives of rosin or resin acids, other than salts of rosin adducts | 0% |
| 38062000 | Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums — Salts of rosin, of resin acids or of derivatives of rosin or resin acids, other than salts of rosin adducts | 0% |
| 38063010 | Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums — In blocks | 0% |
| 38063010 | Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums — In blocks | 0% |
| 03082930 | Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process — Smoked | 0% |
| 38063090 | Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums; Ester gums, other | 0% |
| 38069090 | Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums, other | 0% |
| 38069090 | Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums, other | 0% |
| 38070000 | Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch | 0% |
| 38070000 | Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch | 0% |
| 38085210 | Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers) — Wood preservatives, being preparations other than surface coatings, containing insecticides or fungicides | 0% |
| 38085210 | Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers) — Wood preservatives, being preparations other than surface coatings, containing insecticides or fungicides | 0% |
| 03083050 | Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process — Smoked | 0% |
| 38085220 | Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers) — Fungicides and insecticides in aerosol containers | 0% |
