From May 10th, the United States increased the tariff rate on the $200 billion list of goods imported from China from 10% to 25%. The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council decided on May 13 that since June 1, 2019, a tariff of 10% will be imposed on titanium dioxide originating in the United States. In order to facilitate you to understand some of China's imports and exports of titanium dioxide in the United States, we have compiled data for the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019 for your reference.
Titanium dioxide data exported by China to the United States (unit: ton)
Month |
2018 Year |
2019 Year |
Increase (decrease) year on year |
January |
3700.19 |
1986.64 |
-1713.55 |
February |
4464.29 |
973.37 |
-3490.92 |
March |
6810.80 |
1747.07 |
-5063.73 |
Subtotal |
14975.28 |
4707.08 |
-10268.2 |
It can be seen from the above data that the export volume of titanium dioxide decreased by 68.57% year-on-year.
China's imports of titanium dioxide data from the United States (unit: tons)
Month |
2018 Year |
2019 Year |
Increase (decrease) year on year |
January |
3134.47 |
804.602 |
-2329.868 |
February |
1840.273 |
803.385 |
-1036.888 |
March |
2294.559 |
900.696 |
1393.863 |
Subtotal |
7269.302 |
2508.683 |
-4760.619 |
It can be seen from the above data that the import volume of titanium dioxide decreased by 65.49% year-on-year.