Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council Lowered the Customs Tariff on Certain Products - Regulatory News - Food & Food Contact Materials

On 22nd of November, 2017, Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council published Notice No.25 informing that, from 1st of December of 2017, the customs tariff for certain products, e.g. some foods for special medical purpose for infants (No.29), would be lowered. Detailed information and customs tariff adjustments for foods are listed in table I.

Table I. Customs tariff adjustments for certain products

No.	EX	Tariff Item	Product name	Customs Tariff of 2017 for Most Favoured Nation (%)	Temporary Customs Tariff from 1st December, 2017 (%)
1		03031300	Frozen Atlantic salmon(Salmon salar) and Danube salmon(Hucho hucho)	10	5
2	ex	03035900	Frozen capelin, other than edible fish offal	10	5
3		03061490	Other frozen crabs	10	5
4		03061612	Frozen northern pandalus	5	2
5		03061719	Other frozen shrimps	5	2
6		03063190	Live, fresh or chilled reef shrimp and shrimp	15	5
7		03063399	Live, fresh or chilled crabs	14	7
8		03078190	Live, fresh or chilled abalone	14	7
9		04062000	Grated or powdered cheese, of all kinds	12	8
10		04063000	Processed cheese, not grated and powdered	12	8
11		04064000	Blue veined cheese and other cheese containing veins produced by penicillum roqueforti	15	8
12		04069000	Other cheese	12	8
13		08011100	Dried coconuts	12	7
14		08012100	Fresh or dried Brazil nuts in shell	10	7
15		08012200	Fresh or dried, shelled or peeled Brazil nuts	10	7
16		08013100	Fresh or dried cashew nuts in shell	20	7
17		08013200	Fresh or dried, shelled or peeled cashew nuts	10	7
18		08026190	Macadamia nuts in shell, not for seeding	24	12
19		08026200	Shelled macadamia nuts	24	12
20	ex	08029090	Pecans	24	7
21		08044000	Fresh or dried avocados	25	7
22	ex	08134090	Dried cranberries	25	15
23		16010010	Sausages of meat, meat offal or blood, with natural casing	15	8
24		16010020	Sausages of meat, meat offal or blood, with other casing	15	8
25		19011090	Other preparation for infant use, put up for retail sale	15	2
26		19021900	Other uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared	15	8
27		20071000	Homogenized preparations	30	15
28		21069050	Seal oil capsules	20	10
29	ex	21069090	Special infant milk powder of partial hydrolysis formula of lacto protein, depth hydrolysis of lacto protein, amino acid and lactose free formula	20	0
30		22011010	Mineral waters	20	10
31		22051000	Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavored with plants or aromatic substances(in containers holding 2L or less)	65	14
32		22082000	Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc	10	5
33		22083000	Whiskies	10	5

Remark: EX represents that those products shall be within the Tariff Item, depending on the specific product description.

Reference

http://gss.mof.gov.cn/zhengwuxinxi/zhengcefabu/201711/t20171123_2755506.html

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