10% tariff imposed on Australian originating goods imported into the US

Date: 7 April 2025 
Source: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

The United States (US) President Donald Trump has announced that in effect from 5 April 2025 a baseline 10% tariff has been imposed on Australian originating goods imported into the US as part of a ‘Reciprocal Tariffs’ trade policy (Policy). 
 
In the US, tariffs are taxes imposed on imports, collected by the Customs and Border protection agency for the US Treasury and paid by US importers when foreign goods cross the border. Australian exporters in particular will be impacted by the Policy. 
 
Some Australian goods will not be subject to the recent baseline tariff, including those that are already subject to tariffs under s 232 of the US Trade Expansion Act, including the 25% tariff on imports of: 

• steel and aluminium products (in effect from 12 March 2025); 

• automotive vehicles (in effect from 3 April 2025); and 

• certain automotive parts (to take effect from 3 May 2025). 

Australia is among many global trading partners of the US subject to tariffs. From 9 April 2025 the Policy will impose other individualised calculated tariffs…