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% | |
| Wheat and meslin — Meslin | 0% | |
| Wheat and meslin — Meslin | 0% | |
| Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics — Plates and sheets | 0% | |
| Oats, other | 0% | |
| Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics; Cellular; Of polymers of styrene; Rigid, other | 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.
| 10049000 |
| Oats, other |
| 0% |
| 39211311 | Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics — Plates and sheets | 0% |
| 39211319 | Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics; Cellular; Of polyurethanes; Rigid, other | 0% |
| 39211421 | Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics — Plates and sheets | 0% |
| 39211429 | Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics; Cellular; Of regenerated cellulose; Rigid, other | 0% |
| 39211429 | Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics; Cellular; Of regenerated cellulose; Rigid, other | 0% |
| 10079000 | Grain sorghum, other | 0% |
| 10079000 | Grain sorghum, other | 0% |
| 10082100 | Buckwheat, millet and canary seeds; other cereals — Seed | 0% |
| 10083000 | Buckwheat, millet and canary seeds; other cereals — Canary seeds | 0% |
| 10084000 | Buckwheat, millet and canary seeds; other cereals — Fonio (Digitaria spp.) | 0% |
| 39219020 | Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics — Of hardened proteins | 0% |
| 39219041 | Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics — Plates and sheets | 0% |
| 39219043 | Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics — Textile laminated strip | 0% |
