U.S. spares a few Chinese items from tax

The Trump administration is sparing some Chinese-made household furniture, baby items and Internet modems and routers from its next round of 10% tariffs.

The U.S. Trade Representative’s office released a complete list of the items that were removed from $300 billion in tariffs scheduled to go into effect on September 1 and December 15, some of which had already been hit with 25% tariffs. The new list of 44 categories of spared imports also includes some chemical compounds used in the manufacture of plastics.

The bulk of the items removed from the tariff list were furniture products, and those made of plastics.