US Extends Tariff Exemption for Chinese Fish and Seafood to January 9, 2027, Covering Ten Items Including Alaska Pollock Fillets, Flatfish and Various Crabmeat

The United States will extend the exemption from additional import tariffs on fish and seafood originating in China to January 9, 2027. According to a November 12, 2026 report by the Russian fisheries information agency Fishnews.ru, the extension covers frozen Alaska pollock fillets, certain flatfish (including sole), and crabmeat of king crab, snow crab (opilio), Dungeness crab and several other crab species, totaling ten tariff lines.

The exemption applies to goods entered for US domestic consumption or withdrawn from customs warehouses for that purpose from November 10, 2026.

The United States has imposed additional tariffs on China since 2018 on the grounds of an investigation into Chinese trade practices, covering issues such as technology transfer, intellectual property protection and innovation. At the same time, US authorities established a mechanism granting temporary exemptions from such tariff decisions for specific categories of goods, and fish and seafood were included in that exemption list.

This extension was made under the aforementioned exemption mechanism, with the scope limited to the ten tariff lines listed in the report, and the extended deadline is January 9, 2027.