Executive Order 14358 continues the suspension of heightened reciprocal tariffs on imports from the People’s Republic of China until 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on Nov. 10, 2026. The order was signed Nov. 4, 2025, and was published in the Federal Register on Nov. 7, 2025.
The order says the suspension puts into effect an economic and trade arrangement between the United States and China, which it calls the Kuala Lumpur Joint Arrangement. It says the arrangement followed a meeting with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 30, 2025, in the Republic of Korea.
According to the order, China pledged to put off, and in practice end, both existing and planned worldwide export restrictions that pressure other countries, covering rare earth elements and other critical minerals. The order also says China committed to address retaliation against U.S. semiconductor manufacturers and other major firms in that supply chain, and to buy U.S. agricultural exports, including soybeans, sorghum, and logs.
The order says China also pledged to pause or lift a large share of steps it took in retaliation against the United States. Those steps include suspending tariffs on a wide range of U.S. agricultural products until Dec. 31, 2026, and extending China’s market-based tariff exclusion process for U.S. imports until Nov. 10, 2026. In return, the order says, the United States committed to keep the higher reciprocal tariffs on Chinese imports suspended until the same November 2026 hour.
The order states that continuing the suspension was necessary and appropriate to deal with a national emergency declared in an executive order of April 2, 2025. As this order describes that finding, large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits, and their consequences, were an unusual and extraordinary threat to national security and the economy, with the source largely outside the United States. That earlier order imposed additional duties the signer deemed necessary.
The order recounts later changes. Orders of April 8 and April 9, 2025, raised the extra duty rate on Chinese imports after China retaliated. Orders of May 12 and Aug. 11, 2025, suspended those higher duties and instead set an additional duty of 10 percent while talks continued. This order says a specified heading of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, and a related note, shall stay suspended until the November 2026 time.
The order says the arrangement will help remedy non-reciprocal trade arrangements and address U.S. economic and national security concerns. It says the arrangement will reduce the U.S. trade deficit, boost the economy, and secure access to materials important to national defense, energy, and other parts of the economy, while strengthening agriculture and the manufacturing and defense industrial base. Those statements are the order’s own assessment.
The order directs the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, consulting the Secretary of State and any other officials they consider appropriate, to keep watching the conditions behind the emergency. Those conditions include the trade deficit, lack of reciprocity, differing tariff rates and non-tariff barriers, partners’ policies that hold down wages and consumption, and the strength of domestic manufacturing and the defense industrial base. The Treasury secretary and the trade representative are to report on China’s progress under the arrangement.
The order says that if China fails to carry out its commitments, the signer may modify the order as needed to deal with the emergency. The same three officials, consulting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, are to flag circumstances that might call for further action and to recommend it.
The order authorizes the Treasury, Commerce, and Homeland Security secretaries and the trade representative to take steps, including rules, regulations, or guidance, needed to carry it out, and says they may redelegate those functions inside their agencies. It also says every executive department and agency shall take appropriate measures within its authority to implement the order.