Customs response to new tax rules on entry into WTO

The General administration of Customs said that the application of 5000 yuan duty-paid value can improve administrative efficiency and customs clearance (reporter Hu Hongwei) in response to the recent ipad thousand import duties are alleged to be too high, the general administration of customs yesterday to respond, said the ipad market prices have been changing, and according to different configurations, prices also exist　　Customs will be classified as a notebook computer and applicable to the general value of 5000 yuan duty-paid, mainly for the convenience of passengers, improve administrative efficiency and customs clearance of passengers. According to the General administration of Customs, the Customs Administration has issued the "General administration of Customs" on the entry and exit of passengers with the standard of inspection and release.　　According to the question and answer published by the China Broadcasting Network yesterday, Huang, the head of the General administration of Customs supervision, said the ipad was less than 4000 yuan to visitors, but the customs had to make the above response by taxing the 5000 yuan. Huang also said that because the management of personal postal goods is based on the principle of convenience and simplification, in order to avoid the customs in the clearance of personal items due to the price of the inconvenience to passengers, customs according to the "Collation table" and "tax-paid price list" on the relevant items to determine the category of goods and　　Due to the location of the goods purchased, the time of purchase, the specific models of different, even the "collation table" in the same tax number of goods, the actual transaction price will also be different, some higher than the price list of prices, and some below the price list listed prices, this is normal.　　He said that at present under the "duty-paid price list", notebook computer application of the general duty-paid price is 5000 yuan, this price takes into account the price of some laptops slightly more than 5000 yuan, and some laptop prices are slightly lower than 5000 yuan. Huang stressed that the prices of common goods in the Dutiable value list would be adjusted regularly to make them as close to the actual situation as possible.　　The frequency of adjustment and distribution of the duty-paid price list will be further accelerated in the future. The Ministry of Commerce refers to the high taxes on the ipad thousand-yuan tax controversy has attracted much attention, the Ministry of Commerce Department has issued a consultation letter to the General administration of customs. This newspaper reported that the Ministry of Commerce on the ipad thousand tax, the customs regulations and the WTO rules have not adapted to, reflected in two points. First, the WTO information Technology Agreement requires IT products to gradually reduce tariffs to 0, the current China's value-added tax rate of 17%, and the computer is now zero tariff, there is no excise tax, so the ipad import duty rate of 20% significantly too high; second, the ipad product price is much more than 3,000 yuan,　　The provisions of the 5000 yuan tax-paid value of the ipad are inconsistent with the WTO Customs valuation Agreement.　　Yesterday, the customs did not respond to the WTO rules are inconsistent, and did not respond to the exchange rate of the question, the tax-paid prices and other issues. Related news "personal goods duty-free limits and developed countries" (reporter Hu Hongwei) for 5000 yuan personal goods duty-free limit value is considered to be too low, the Director of the General Administration of Customs Supervision Huang responded that, taking into account the differences in the level of national economic development, at present IThe level of state determination is basically equivalent to that of the developed countries.　　He explained that the practice of imposing duty-free limits on baggage items carried by incoming travellers was a more general international practice, and that the imposition of a full value on goods exceeding the limit value was also a popular method for states.　　At present, the duty-free limit for personal belongings carried by residents in China is 5000 yuan, and the duty-free limit of personal belongings intended for non-resident travellers is 2000 yuan. Some passengers put forward, now any one high-grade goods exceed the limits of the Customs regulations. Huang responded that the customs would levy taxes on goods that were acquired outside the country and which were intended to remain in the territory by non-resident travellers. The customs does not levy a tax on the original personal belongings that passengers carry into (out) the border and bring out (into) the territory.