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Tariffs to be cut on 100 categories of imports

www.chinanews.cn 2005-12-14 09:18:03

(Source: Xinhuanet)

BEIJING, Dec. 14 - China said Tuesday it will further cut import tariffs
on more than 100 categories of products beginning Jan. 1, 2006, involving
vegetable oil, raw chemical materials, automobiles and parts.
Approved by the State Council, or China's cabinet, the move was taken to
honor China's tariff reduction commitment upon its entry into the World
Trade Organization, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council
said in a statement.
Since China has fulfilled most of its tariff reduction obligations, the
latest plan will not have a big impact on China's overall tariff level,
according to the statement.
China's overall level of import tariffs will remain at 9.9 percent in
2006, compared with 10.4 percent in 2004.
The average import tariff will be 15.2 percent for farm produce and 9.0
percent for industrial goods, it said.
As of 2006, China will continue its tariff and quota management of wheat,
corn and five other farm produce items and three categories of chemical
fertilizers, and abolish tariffs and quota management of soybean oil,
palm oil and rapeseed oil.
China will also stop collecting export tariffs on textile goods, and
impose provisional tariff rates on over 60 categories of exports as of
Jan. 1, 2006, according to the statement.
China will impose more preferential import tariffs on products from the
10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as of
2006 according to the agreement on the China-ASEAN free trade area.
Similar preferential import tariffs will also be available for products
from Pakistan and Hong Kong and Macao according to related arrangements.
China will also impose even lower tariffs on products originating from
about 30 least developing countries, such as Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos,
Bangladesh and Sudan.
The 15 kinds of fresh fruit produced in Taiwan will continue to enjoy
zero tariff rates, said the statement.

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