China'S Footwear Import Tariff Reduction In 2010

According to the General Administration of customs, the most favored nation tariff rate of China's leather industry has been fulfilled according to WTO's promise. The most favored nation tariff of leather industry in 2010 was 12.09%.

At the same time, the scope and scope of tariff preferences in bilateral or multilateral free trade zones continue to increase.

Preferential terms and scope continue to increase.

According to the data released by the General Administration of customs, the average tariff of MFN imports in leather industry in 2010 was 12.09%.

Compared with 2009, the import tariffs of half finished leather imported from three customs codes were slightly lower.

The scope and scope of tariff preferences in bilateral or multilateral free trade zones continue to increase.

China has implemented an agreement tax rate on products that have signed free trade agreement countries and regions, and its tariff rate is lower than the preferential tax rate.

Compared with the previous year, the preferential tariff rates of China's imports of leather products from Pakistan, ASEAN, New Zealand and other countries increased greatly in 2010.

Specifically, in 2010, the average import tariff of China's leather products imported from Chile was 0.77%, 11.32 percentage points lower than the most favored nation average import tariff, 0.85 percentage points lower than the previous year. On the basis of the import tariff of footwear and footwear parts fell to zero last year, import tariffs on Semi finished leather, raw fur and tannage were also reduced to zero this year.

In 2010, China's tariff preferences for imports from ASEAN expanded from eight countries to ten countries. Except for the tariff No. 94012010 leather or reclaimed leather, the average import tariffs of other leather products were zero; the average import tariff for leather products imported from Pakistan was 8.01%, 4.08 percentage points lower than the most favored nation average import tariff, 0.43 percentage points lower than the previous year; in 2010, the average import tariff on imports from New Zealand was 5.08%, 7.01 percentage points lower than the most favored nation average import tariff, 2.17 percentage points lower than the previous year.

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The most favored nation tariff for leather goods remains unchanged.

In respect of the most favoured nation tax rate of leather industry, the tax rate of finished leather, shoes and other 11 leather products remained unchanged except that the rate of semi finished leather decreased from 9.5% in 2009 to 9.3%.

This also reduced the average tariff of MFN imports in 2010 from 12.11% in 2009 to 12.09%.

Continue to grant preferential tax rates to the least developed countries

In 2010, in addition to the temporary reduction of import tariffs on the 8.5 customs tariff of finished leather, the percentage of pig and goat semi finished leather products with tariff rates of 41051010, ex41062100 and 41063110 increased by 2 percentage points.

In addition, in 2010, China continued to implement preferential tax rates for the import of some leather products from the 31 least developed countries, six countries in Afghanistan, and two countries in the Asia Pacific region. In 2010, it continued to implement 20% export tariffs on 41039011 and 41039019 two goat coded plates coded by the customs.