The reporter learned from the Ministry of Finance the day before and was reviewed by the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council and submitted to the State Council for approval. Since January 1, 2010, China will further adjust the import and export tariffs, mainly involving the most favored nation tax rates, annual tentative tax rates, and treaty tax rates. Preferential tax rates and tariff lines and other aspects.
It is understood that in 2010 China will continue to fulfill its tariff reduction commitments to join the World Trade Organization and reduce import tariffs on six products such as fresh strawberries. Continue to implement tariff quota management on seven kinds of agricultural products such as wheat, corn, rice, rice, sugar, wool, tops, and cotton, and three types of fertilizers such as urea, compound fertilizer, and diammonium hydrogen phosphate. Implementation of the sliding tax, the tax rate will remain unchanged, and a 1% provisional quota tax rate will continue to be applied to urea, compound fertilizer and diammonium hydrogen phosphate. Continue to implement specific taxes or compound taxes on 55 products such as frozen chickens, and the tax rate will remain unchanged.
After adjusting, China’s total tariff level is still 9.8%. The average tax rate for agricultural products was 15.2%, and the average tax rate for industrial products was 8.9%. At this point, China's accession to the World Trade Organization has fulfilled all its tax reduction commitments.
In order to promote economic restructuring, promote energy and resource conservation, protect the ecological environment, and meet the needs of economic and social development, China will implement a low annual import tariff for over 600 products in 2010, mainly including coal, granite, and phosphate rock. Stone, celestine and other resource products.
At the same time, 2010 will continue to implement a selective tax on natural rubber, and appropriately reduce the amount of tax standards; continue to impose tariffs on petroleum, rare earth, wood pulp, steel billet and other products at a provisional rate; continue to urea Fertilizers such as ammonium phosphate concentrate levy export tariffs and apply different tax rates during the peak season of domestic fertilizer use.
In order to expand bilateral and multilateral economic and trade cooperation, China will base on China-ASEAN, China-Chile, China-New Zealand and other free trade agreements and the "Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement" in 2010. It will originate from 10 ASEAN countries, Chile, Pakistan, New Zealand and South Korea. Some of the country’s imported goods are subject to a more favorable treaty tax rate than the most favored nation tax rate. Under the framework of the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement between the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macau, zero tariffs will be imposed on commodities originating in Hong Kong and Macau and which have already established preferential standards for origin. At the same time, China will continue to apply preferential tax rates to some commodities originating from 41 LDCs, such as Laos and Ethiopia.
In addition, under the premise of complying with the relevant World Customs Organization principles, some tax items in the import and export tariffs have been adjusted to include tax items such as hydroxylamine sulfate, recombinant human insulin, food-grade glacial acetic acid, and quick-setting permanent magnetic sheets. After adjustment, the total number of China's import and export tax items in 2010 will increase from 7,868 in 2009 to 7,923.