In accordance with my country’s commitment to join the World Trade Organization, starting from January 1, 2008, my country has further reduced the most-favored-nation tariff rates on 45 commodities including fresh strawberries and terephthalic acid. After adjustment, my country's total tariff level is 9.8%, of which the average tariff rate for agricultural products is 15.2% and the average tariff rate for industrial products is 8.9%.
1. Tariff adjustment for electronic products
In accordance with my country’s commitment to join the World Trade Organization, since January 1, 2005, my country has fully implemented tariff adjustments on 256 tax-targeted information technology products. zero tariff; in 2008, my country did not adjust the most-favored-nation tax rate for other electronic products, but only adjusted the provisional import tariff rates and tax items for some consumer electronics products, components and some special raw materials for electronic products; in accordance with the differences between my country and relevant countries The Free Trade Zone Agreement has continued to be implemented and further reduced the agreed tax rates for some electronic products; in accordance with the arrangements for closer economic and trade relations between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, industries and products originating in Hong Kong and the nine provinces (regions) of the Pan-Pearl River Delta have been The joint meeting on information technology cooperation met in Macao for the first time and some electronic products that have completed the approval of origin standards are subject to zero tariffs; customs inspection and management of zero tariffs on nine non-taxable information technology products continue to be implemented.
II. Adjustments to the provisional tax rate for some electronic products and raw materials specific to electronic products
In order to promote technological progress, corporate innovation and the expansion of the electronic product industry chain to core products, in 2008, my country Newly added optical components for TFT-LCD backlight modules for LCD display production, cold cathode lamps for LCD backlight modules, original glass for LCD displays, LCD glass substrates, ultrasonic cleaning equipment for flat panel display manufacturing and LCD displays. Temporary import tariff rates are set for parts and raw materials such as alumina, barium carbonate, strontium carbonate, and zirconium silicate used in the production of original screen glass; the import tariff rate will continue to be imposed on liquid crystal display panels, plasma imaging components and their parts, and optical flat glass (thickness less than 0.7 mm), high strain point glass for plasma module production (strain point at 550 degrees Celsius and above), conductive glass, new industrial quartz glass (flatness less than or equal to 1 micron) and silver electrode for plasma display screen production Parts and raw materials used in the production of flat panel displays such as slurry, dielectric slurry, barrier slurry, and phosphor slurry are subject to the current provisional tax rate; in addition, new license certificates (including software upgrade licenses, software user licenses certificates, etc.), paper with instructions for automatic data processing equipment, contact image sensors (scan heads), thermal print heads, tape-type broadcast video recorders, disc-type broadcast video recorders, radio receivers and their combined machine parts, etc. Provisional import tariff rates for electronic products in 2008.
In order to promote the structural adjustment of my country's information industry, trade balance and support the production of high-tech electronic products, starting from January 1, 2008, my country has further reduced the following electronic products and special raw materials for electronic products in 2007 The import tariff rates are tentatively set for the year, mainly including: polycrystalline silicon, laser video disc player movement precision micro motor (diameter not exceeding 24 mm, power <1.5 watt, surface vibration accuracy ≤ 20 microns, step movement < 34 microns), mobile phone Camera components (composed of lens + CCD/CMOS + digital signal processing circuit), camcorders and digital cameras, imaging modules for mobile phones, video cameras, camcorders, other parts of digital cameras, patch filters, Color LCD projector lenses and lens components, SLR digital camera mirrors, etc.
In order to promote the development of my country’s information industry production technology, starting from January 1, 2008, my country will continue to implement the current provisional tax rate on the following electronic products and raw materials used in the production of electronic products, mainly including: printed circuits Photoresist dry films for board manufacturing, coatings for optical fibers, electrode slurries (main components are silver, nickel or copper and inorganic solvents), and bromine with a mass percentage of 18% or more or the imported CIF price is higher than Epoxy resin at US$3,800/ton (if dissolved in solvent, pure epoxy resin is used to convert the percentage of bromine), glass capillary tubes for low-light components for optical communications, positioning tubes (outer diameter less than 3nn), display tube glass shells and Its parts, copper clad laminates and copper foil for printed circuit boards (thickness ≤ 0.15 mm), computer indirect plate making machines, computer indirect plate making machine parts, electrostatic photosensitive multi-function machines, inkjet printing equipment with a width > 60 cm (can be connected to network or automatic data processing equipment), electrostatic printing equipment (laser printer, can be connected to network or automatic data processing equipment) with a width >60cm, automatic teller machine cash dispenser, power not greater than 0.5 watt (cylindrical Shape: diameter not greater than 6 mm, height not greater than 25 mm; oblate: diameter not greater than 15 mm, thickness not greater than 5 mm) Micro motors and DC stabilized power supplies not used for laser video disc player movements (power less than 1000 watts) .
The voltage stabilization coefficient is less than one ten thousandth, except for machinery listed in tax number 8471), semiconductor modules with current conversion function, microphones (microphones) and their mounts, single speakers and multiple speakers. Speakers, flash memory type sound recorders, other sound recording and playback devices using semiconductor media, other sound recording or playback equipment, cassette tape recorders or sound playback and other parts, laser video disc machine movements with recording functions, other video signal recording Or parts of playback equipment, laser transceiver installation (laser head) of laser video disc players, parts for laser transceiver installation of laser video disc players, vehicle audio repeaters or transmitters, other parts for sound recording or playback equipment, reproducing sounds or images Message tapes, recorded discs used only for reproducing audio messages, aircraft airborne radar, audio recording (playback) combination machines that do not require an external power supply, radios that do not require an external power supply, other audio recording (playback) combination machines, tapes Clock radios, other new industrialized radios, color television parts (except plasma components and parts), small buzzers with a volume not exceeding 110dB, lighting sources for color LCD projectors, color data/graphic display tubes (screen fluorescent The pixel pitch is less than 0.4 mm), television picture tube parts, other cathode ray tube parts, rear projection TV displays (including Fresnel lens screens, double lens screens and protective screens), optical components of low-light components for optical communications (including Thin film filters, self-focusing lenses, Faraday twisters with working wavelengths of 800nm-1700nm), micro lenses for laser transceiver installations in laser video disc players, lenses for ordinary digital cameras (except SLR cameras) and camcorder lenses, etc.
3. Adjustment of negotiated tax rates and preferential tax rates for some electronic products
In order to expand bilateral and multilateral economic and trade cooperation and promote regional economic development, in accordance with the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area Agreement and the China-Chile Free Trade Area Agreement, The Trade Area Agreement, the China-Pakistan Free Trade Zone Agreement, and the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement continue to impose higher than most-favored-nation tariffs on some imported electronic goods originating from the ten ASEAN countries, Chile, Pakistan, South Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other countries. Low treaty tax rates, including further reductions in the treaty tax rates for some tax targets on electronic products. Under the framework of the closer economic and trade relations arrangement between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, zero tariffs will continue to be implemented on some electronic products originating in Hong Kong and Macao that have completed the approval of origin standards. We will continue to apply preferential tax rates to some electronic products originating from 4 Southeast Asian countries including Laos, 30 African countries including Benin, and 5 countries including Yemen and 39 least developed countries.
IV. Adjustment of tariff items for some electronic products
Based on the development environment of my country’s electronic product production technology, in order to facilitate the formulation of industrial policies, tax policies and strengthening of import and export management, in compliance with the "Coordination Under the principle of "System", in 2008, my country also adjusted and added copper-clad laminates for printed circuits, button and cylindrical alkaline zinc-manganese primary batteries and primary battery packs, new industrialized wired network interface cards, and wireless network interface cards. , wireless access fixed stations, antennas and parts for equipment listed in tax number 8517, Bluetooth headsets, vehicle audio repeaters or transmitters, unrecorded disks, other unrecorded optical media, unrecorded semiconductor smart cards, tax number 8471 The listed electronic products include unrecorded media and other unrecorded media for machinery, compact fluorescent lamps (also known as energy-saving lamps), color filters, SLR camera lenses and electronic all-round testing machines. (Department of Economic System Reform and Economic Operation, Ministry of Information Industry)