Notice of the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council on the Tariff Implementation Plan for 2011

Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council
December 2, 2010

Annex:

Ⅰ Adjustment of Import Tariffs

(1) About the Most-Favored-Nation Tariff Rates

1. Tariff quotas may continue applying to 8 categories of commodities such as wheat, which are covered by 45 HS Codes, and their HS Codes and tariff rates may both remain unchanged.

Sliding duties may be levied on certain quantity of cotton that is beyond its tariff quota.

Within established tariff quotas, the rate 1% may apply to three kinds of chemical fertilizers including urea, compound fertilizer, and diammonium hydrogen phosphate.

2. Specific duties or compound duties may continue applying to 55 kinds of commodities including photosensitive materials. Therein, the rates of specific duties may be adjusted for photographic films under 8 HS Codes.

3. Customs inspection may continue applying to the control over the information technology products under 9 ex-HS Codes, and their HS Codes and tariff rates may both remain unchanged.

4. Other most-favored-nation tariff rates may remain unchanged.

(2) Provisional tariff rates may apply to part of imported commodities including fuel oils.

(3) Conventional tariff rates may apply to relevant countries or regions that have signed with China the effective agreements on preferential trade or tariffs as follows:

1. Conventional tariff rates under the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) may continue applying to 1,778 HS Code-covered commodities originating in the R. O. Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Laos.

2. Conventional tariff rates under the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement may continue applying to part of HS Code-covered commodities originating in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia.

3. Conventional tariff rates under the China-Chile Free Trade Agreement may continue applying to 7,080 HS Code-covered commodities originating in Chile.

4. Conventional tariff rates under the China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement may continue applying to 6,289 HS Code-covered commodities originating in Pakistan.

5. Conventional tariff rates under the China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement may continue applying to 7,091 HS Code-covered commodities originating in New Zealand.

6. Conventional tariff rates under the China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement may continue applying to 2,760 HS Code-covered commodities originating in Singapore.

7. Conventional tariff rates under the China-Peru Free Trade Agreement may continue applying to 6,855 HS Code-covered commodities originating in Peru.

8. Zero tariff may apply to 1,623 HS Code-covered commodities originating in Hong Kong Region and subject to established preferential place-of-origin criteria.

9. Zero tariff may apply to 1,215 HS Code-covered commodities originating in Macao Region and subject to established preferential place-of-origin criteria.

10. The 557 HS Code-covered commodities originating in Taiwan region may start to take advantage of the conventional tariff rates under the Goods Trade Early-Harvest Program in the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement between Both Sides of the Taiwan Straits.

(4) According to relevant established Sino-foreign preferential trade or tariff agreements, to bilateral exchange of notes, and to relevant decisions of the State Council, special preferential tariff rates may apply to 41 least-developed countries/regions recognized by the United Nations, including 4 Southeast Asian countries/regions such as Laos, 30 African countries/regions such as Sudan, and other 7 countries/regions such as Yemen.

(5) General tariff rates may remain unchanged.

Ⅱ Adjustment of Export Tariffs

(1) Rates in the "Export Tariff Schedule" may remain unchanged.

(2) Provisional tariff rates may apply to part of export goods such as live eel fry; Special export tariffs may continue applying to part of chemical fertilizers; There may be no change in the scope of trade modes covered by the export-tariff imposition.

Ⅲ Adjustment of Tariff Schedules and HS Codes

Adjustment may be made to part of tariff schedules and HS Codes. Consequently, the total number of HS Codes may reach 7,977 codes in the China Customs Import and Export Tariff (version of 2011).