Some infant milk powder import tax rates fell to 5%

In 2013, guided by the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, while maintaining the continuity and stability of macroeconomic policies, China will further strengthen and improve the role of tariff regulation, focus on improving the relevance and effectiveness of tariff policies, and adhere to steady growth. We will adjust the structure, focus on the reform and benefit the people's livelihood, support the independent innovation of enterprises, promote the transformation and upgrading of industrial structure, focus on expanding domestic demand, and promote the steady growth and balanced development of foreign trade. The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council has considered and reported to the State Council for approval. Since January 1, 2013, China will make partial adjustments to import and export tariffs.

In 2013, it continued to implement tariff quota management on imports of seven kinds of agricultural products such as wheat and three kinds of fertilizers such as urea, and implemented a temporary quota tax rate of 1% for three kinds of chemical fertilizers such as urea. A certain amount of cotton is added to the tariff and the import of a certain amount of cotton continues to implement a slip tax, and the tax rate is adjusted appropriately. The main reason is that when the cotton import price is too low, the applicable tax rate has increased. A specific tax or compound tax is imposed on 47 products such as frozen chickens, and the collection method for some photographic film import duties is changed from quantity-based measurement to ad valorem.

In order to actively increase imports and meet domestic economic and social development and consumer demand, in 2013 China will implement an annual import temporary tax rate that is lower than the MFN tariff rate for more than 780 imported goods. Among them, the new and further reduced tax rate products are mainly divided into five categories: First, condiments, special formulas for infant formula, pacemakers, vascular stents, etc. to promote consumption and improve people's livelihood, and closely related to the people's lives and medical care Second, automotive production line robots, wide-format inkjet printers, organic light-emitting diode displays, inverter modules for electric vehicles, lithium-electronic storage batteries, and steel belts for continuously variable transmissions to promote equipment manufacturing and strategic emerging industries Equipment, components and raw materials; thirdly, energy-resource products such as kaolin, mica sheets, ferrotungsten, and antimony, as well as filters for ship ballast water treatment equipment, capsules for EMUs, and other environmental products that are conducive to energy conservation and emission reduction; Fourth, Zifu, milk lining, self-propelled feed mixing and feeding vehicles and other agricultural support agricultural products; Fifth, down, linen staple fiber, automatic rotor spinning machines and other products supporting the development of the textile industry.

In order to promote sustainable economic development and promote the building of a resource-saving and environment-friendly society, China continued to impose export tariffs on products such as coal, crude oil, fertilizers, and ferroalloys in 2013 in the form of tentative tax rates. Appropriately extend the application time of off-season tax rates for fertilizers and reduce the export tax rates for off-season exports. The method for collecting export tariffs on some fertilizer products has been changed from ad valorem pricing to total-rate collection.

According to the free trade agreement or tariff preference agreement signed between China and relevant countries or regions, in 2013 China continued to import parts of the countries originating from ASEAN countries, Chile, Pakistan, New Zealand, Peru, Costa Rica, South Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other countries. The product implements the agreement tax rate, and some tax rates further decrease. Under the framework of the Mainland's Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement with Hong Kong and Macau, zero tariffs will be imposed on products originating in Hong Kong and Macau that have already established preferential origin standards. According to the cross-strait economic cooperation framework agreement, zero tariffs are applied to some products originating in Taiwan. Continue to apply preferential tax rates to certain products originating in 40 least developed countries, such as Laos, Sudan and Yemen.