New changes of export tariff in 2009

As per 2009 Regulations for Duties, the legal export tariff shall be kept unchanged, while adjustment is mainly made for provisional export tax rate and special export tariff. After adjustment, provisional export tax rate shall be continuously adopted for energy & resource-related products such as coal, crude oil and metallic ore as well as high energy consumption and environmental impact products such as wood pulp, coke, ferroalloy, billet and part of steel products. Meanwhile, in order to satisfy the demands from agricultural production, the seasonal export tariff shall be continuously levied for the fertilizer such as carbamide and diammonium phosphate, etc. In addition, the special export tariff shall be levied for certain fertilizer and raw materials hereof such as compound fertilizer.

The adjustment of provisional export tax rate and special export tax rate shall mainly include four aspects:

a. The provisional export tax rate for foodstuff is lowered in general. Part of the tax rate is lowered by 3-8 % and provisional export tax rate is also cancelled for certain products;

b. Provisional export tax rate is cancelled for rolled steel and steel pipes;

c. Special export tariff is levied for fertilizer-related products such as phosphorus base, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, ammonia, ammonium chloride and potassium nitrate. Also, special export tariff rate is lowered for part of fertilizer and the raw materials thereof;

d. Provisional export tax rate is added for the resource-based products such as the mixture with fluoride and magnesium oxide.