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China: 2012 Tariff Implementation Plan released

Announcement

09 Dec 2011

December 9th, 2011 - China's PRC State Council Tariffs and Tax Standards Commission released its schedule for import and export tariffs of 2012. The announcement sees a reduction in over 730 tariffs and a change to the way cotton is taxed, making it more expensive to import.

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Number of interventions

4

2 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

2 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

01 Jan 2012

Revocation date:

31 Dec 2012

Announced: 09 Dec 2011
Export tax
Also contained in the schedule of export tariffs were temporary increases for 21 products, as listed here. One of these was altered at the end of the year. The remainder remained in place until the en...
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Implementation date

01 Jan 2012

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Announced: 09 Dec 2011
Export tax In force
The plan also contained a schedule of temporary export tariffs for 2012. Among the changes were 7 products that had their export tariffs lowered. As of 2017, said lowerings are all still in effect.
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Implementation date

01 Jan 2012

Revocation date:

31 Dec 2012

Announced: 09 Dec 2011
Import tariff
In addition, the plan included the list of 'temporary' export tariffs for the year 2012. This document revealed that 126 import tariffs were lowered for that year.
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Implementation date

01 Jan 2012

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Announced: 09 Dec 2011
Import tariff In force
In the December 2011 announcement from the PRC State Tariff Commission, eight import tariffs were raised. Four of these were removed or changed at the end of the year; the rest were renewed at least o...
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