Next year China will adjust import and export items tax rate total tariff level 9.8%

Xinhua Beijing, December 15, according to the Ministry of Finance website News, since January 1, 2010, China will further adjust import and export tariff, mainly related to the MFN rate, the annual provisional tax rate, the agreement rate, preferential tax rates and tariff items and so on.　　After the adjustment, the total number of import and export items in 2010 will increase from 7,868 in 2009 to 7,923, with a total tariff level of 9.8%. According to the notice of the Ministry of Finance, in order to further implement the scientific concept of development, promote economic and social development, and play a positive role in promoting development, restructuring, deepening reform and improving people's livelihood, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council has reviewed and reported to the State Council for approval, since January 1, 2010,　　Our country will further adjust import and export tariff, mainly related to MFN rate, annual provisional tax rate, agreement rate, ex-gratia rate and tariff items. In 2010, China will continue to fulfill its tariff concession commitments to join the World Trade Organization and reduce import tariffs for 6 products such as fresh strawberries. Continue to wheat, corn, rice and rice, sugar, 7 kinds of agricultural products such as wool, tops, cotton and other 3 kinds of chemical fertilizers, such as urea, compound fertilizer, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate and so on, implement tariff quota management, and apply a certain number of cotton to the import tariff quota to continue to implement sliding quasi tax, the tax rate remains unchanged, and the urea, compound Provisional quota rates. Continue to carry out 55 kinds of products such as frozen chicken from the amount or compound tax, the tax rate remains unchanged. After adjustment, the total tariff level of our country is 9.8%. Among them, the uniform tax rate of agricultural products is 15.2%, and the industrial product uniform tax rate is 8.9%.　　At this point, China's accession to the World Trade Organization to reduce the tax commitment has been fully fulfilled. To promote economic restructuring, to promote energy conservation and environmental protection, to meet the needs of economic and social Development, 2010 China will implement a lower annual import provisional tax rate of more than 600 kinds of products, mainly including coal, granite, phosphate ore, lapis lazuli and other resource products, naphtha, vinyl chloride, polycarbonate, Optical communication with the basic raw materials or components such as low-light-level components, infrared body thermometer, human vaccines, plasma and other public health products, perm agent, household water purifiers, household dishwashers and other consumer goods, as well as high-powered engines, tea pickers, clothing, such as liquid nitrogen finishing machines and other advanced production equipment.　　2010 will continue to apply the selection tax on natural rubber, and appropriately reduce the amount of tax on the basis of the standard, and continue to the provisional rate of oil, rare earths, wood pulp, billet and other products levied export tariffs, continue to urea, ammonium phosphate and other chemical fertilizers levy export tariffs and in the domestic use of fat season to apply different tax rates. To expand bilateral and multilateral economic and trade cooperation, 2010 China will be based on China-ASEAN, China-Chile, China-Pakistan, China-New Zealand and other free trade agreements and the Asia-Pacific trade Agreement, the 10 countries originating in ASEAN, Chile, Pakistan, New Zealand, Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Some imports from countries such as Bangladesh implement a more favourable agreement rate than the MFN rate. Closer to the mainland with Hong Kong and MacaoUnder the framework of the economic and trade relations Arrangement, zero tariff is applied to goods originating in Hong Kong and Macao and having established preferential standard of origin.　　At the same time, my country will continue to apply ex-gratia rates to some of the 41 least developed countries originating in Laos and Ethiopia. To adapt to the progress of science and technology, industrial structure adjustment, in order to optimize the trade structure and strengthen the import and export governance, we have adjusted some tax items in the import and export tariff according to the principles of the World Customs Organization, and added the tariff of hydroxylamine sulfate, recombinant human insulin, food-grade glacial acetic acid and fast-condensed permanent magnet. After the adjustment, the total number of import and export items in 2010 will increase from 2009 to 7,868 to 7,923.