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Global Trade Alert

China: Import tariffs and VAT exemption for R&D centre equipment

Announcement

10 Oct 2009

October 10th, 2009 - China's State Administration of Taxation announced that R&D institutions would be exempt from both tariffs on imported equipment and VAT on domestic equipment.

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Number of interventions

2

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

1 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

10 Oct 2010

Revocation date:

31 Dec 2015

Updated: 10 Oct 2009
Import tariff

In addition to the exemptions for domestic products, the policy also bestowed exemptions to both import tariffs and import VAT on imported equipment.

This part of the policy was renewed in ...

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Implementation date

10 Oct 2009

Revocation date:

31 Dec 2020

Updated: 10 Oct 2009
Tax or social insurance relief

On the 10th of October 2009, China's State Administration of Taxation unveiled a policy that targeted R&D centres. The policy targets both imported and domestically-produced equipment, with the...

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