Office of the United States Trade Representative, 600 17th Street NW, Washington, DC, United States
Office of the United States Trade Representative
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USTR's[1] 15 June 2018 release states that "Customs and Border Protection will begin to collect the additional duties on July 6, 2018".US Customs began collecting an extra 25 percent on 818 tariff lines worth about $34 billion of Chinese imports on 6 July 2018 — the opening move of the trade war, and the first time since the 1930s that the United States taxed a major trading partner at this scale.
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