GACC Announcement No.69, 2015 on Tariff Adjustment Plan for 2016

Upon State Council approval, the Tariff Adjustment Plan for 2016 shall enter into force on 1 January 2016. Relevant matters are hereby announced:

1. Import Duty Adjustment

1) Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) Duty Rates

(1) Provisional rates will be applied to such import commodities as frozen plaice from Greenland (see Annex 1);
(2) Specific duty or compound duties will remain on 46 commodities as frozen whole chicken (see Annex 2);
(3) Tariff quota with unchanged rates will be applied to wheat and others under 47 HS Codes in 8 categories (see Annex 3);
(4) Customs inspection will remain over 10 non-full HS Coded products of information technology (see Annex 4);
(5) Other MFN rates will remain unchanged.

2) Conventional Duty Rates
In accordance with China-foreign preferential trade or tariff agreements, conventional duties will be applied to the imports from the countries/regions concerned (see Annexes 5, 6, 7).

3) Special Preferential Duty Rates
In accordance with China-foreign preferential trade or tariff agreements, bilateral exchanges and State Council decisions, special preferential duties will remain at unchanged rates and scope for the countries/regions concerned (see Annex 7).

4) General duty rates will remain unchanged.

2. Export Duty Adjustment
Reduction will be made in the export duty rates on products as high-purity pig irons; phosphoric acid and so on will be exempted from export duty; Annex 8 provides the commodities under export duty after the adjustment.

3. Tariff Item Adjustment
As per domestic requirements, some tariff items will be adjusted. Through the adjustment, there will be totally 8,294 items in the "Import & Export Tariff of the P. R. China" of 2016 (see Annex 9).

4. Other Matters
The "Import & Export Tariff of the P. R. China" of 2016, the "Customs Statistics Commodity Catalog of the P. R. China" of 2016 and "Import & Export Customs Declaration Catalog of the P. R. China" of 2016 will all be published by China Customs Press. GACC-issued Commodity Classification Resolutions and Chinese Subheading Notes in China Import & Export Tariff will be subject to the regulations in Annex 9 hereto.

Annex 1. List of Provisional Duty Rates on Import Commodities;
Annex 2. List of Specific Duties & Compound Duties on Import Commodities;
Annex 3. List of Import Duty Rates on Tariff Quota Commodities;
Annex 4. List of Duty Rates on Non-Full HS Coded Products of Info Technology;
Annex 5. List of Conventional Duties of 2016 under China-South Korea and China-Australia FTAs;
Annex 6. List of FTA Conventional Duties to Be Reduced More in 2016;
Annex 7. List of FTA Conventional Duties and Special Preferential Duties Without Reduction in 2016;
Annex 8. List of Export Duty Rates;
Annex 9. List of Adjusted Items from Import & Export Tariff



General Administration of Customs of China (GACC)
December 28, 2015