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China: Adjustment of consumer taxes on imported goods

Announcement

30 Sep 2018

September 30th, 2018 - The Chinese government announced some changes to the consumer tax rate on some imported goods.

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Number of interventions

2

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

1 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

01 Nov 2018

Revocation date:

08 Sep 2019

Announced: 30 Sep 2018
Internal taxation of imports
In September 2018, the Chinese ministry of finance released Shuiweihei 2018/49, updated the consumer tax rates on several categories of imported goods. On pharmaceutical drugs, a tax of 15% was newly...
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Implementation date

02 Oct 2018

Revocation date:

08 Sep 2019

Announced: 30 Sep 2018
Internal taxation of imports
In addition to the increased taxes mentioned above, the rates on some items were reduced as follows: Sporting goods (excl. golf), Goods related to knitting and weaving, electrical appliances: from ...
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