2009 Customs Tariff Implementation Scheme

Import tariff adjustment

(1) Import tariffs have been adjusted as follows according to the promised tariff reductions upon China's entry into the WTO:

1. Reduce the MFNT tariffs for five items in the "Import Tariff Regulations" (please see Schedule 1), including fresh strawberry. The MFNT tariffs shall remain unchanged. After the adjustment, the general Customs tariffs level will be 9.8% in 2009.

2. Customs inspections and administration shall still remain applicable for the information technology products of nine ex-tariff items and the tariff rates shall remain unchanged.

3. Tariff and quota administration shall be applicable for products in 45 tariff items in 8 categories, including wheat, and the tariff items and tariff rates shall remain the same. Sliding duties shall be applied on a certain number of import cotton beyond the quota. A 1% provisional quota tariff shall be applicable for three types of fertilizers, including urea, compound fertilizers and diammonium phosphates (please see Schedule 2 for details).

4. Specific duties and compound duties shall be applied on 55 products including frozen chicken. The specific duties of 11 film items are adjusted (please see Schedule 3 for details).

(2) Implement a provisional tariff rate for some import products, including frozen Greenland halibuts (please see Schedule 4 for details).

(3) Implement contracted tariff rates for products from relevant countries and regions according to the preferential trade or tariff agreements signed with them (please see Schedule 5 for details).
1. Continue to implement the contracted tariff rates for products of 1,751 tariff items from Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Laos according to the "Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement";

2. Continue to implement the contracted tariff rates for products of some tariff items from Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Laos and Cambodia according to the "China-ASEAN Free-trade Agreement";

3. Continue to implement the contracted tariff rates for products of 6,978 tariff items from Chile according to the "China-Chile Free-trade Agreement";

4. Continue to implement the contracted tariff rates for products of 6,191 tariff items from Pakistan according to the "China-Pakistan Free-trade Agreement";

5. Continue to implement the contracted tariff rates for products of 6,989 tariff items from New Zealand according to the "China-New Zealand Free-trade Agreement";

6. Continue to implement the contracted tariff rates for products of 2,739 tariff items from Singapore according to the "China-Singapore Free-trade Agreement";

7. Implement a zero tariff for products of 1,539 tariff items from Hong Kong China provided that the preferential standards of place of origin have been established;

8. Implement a zero tariff for products of 681 tariff items from Macau China provided that the preferential standards of place of origin have been established;

(4) Continue to implement preferential tariff rates for products of some tariff items from 4 Southeast Asian countries including Laos, 31 African countries including Ethiopia and 6 countries including Afghanistan, totaling 41 countries that are categorized by the UN as the least-developed countries, according to the preferential trade or tariff agreements signed with relevant countries or regions (please see Schedule 6 for details).

(5) General tariff rate shall remain the same.

Note: Schedules (omitted)