Li Keqiang, the State Council, May 30 chaired a State council executive meeting to decide on a wider range of tariff cuts for consumer goods and to better meet diversified consumer demand, according to the Chinese government network. The meeting pointed out that to further reduce the import tariffs on consumer goods, is conducive to expanding the open, to meet the needs of the masses, push the quality of products, industrial upgrading. The meeting decided that from July 1 this year, will be clothing shoes and hats, kitchen and sports fitness supplies such as import tariff rate reduced from 15.9% to 7.1%; The average tariff rate on imports of household appliances, such as washing machines and refrigerators, was reduced from 20.5% to 8%; (a) The average tax rate on imports of processed foodstuffs, such as aquaculture, fishery and mineral water, decreased from 15.2% to 6.9%;
The average tax rate on imports of detergents and skincare, hairdressing and some medical and health products was reduced from 8.4% to 2.9%.
The meeting stressed that the relevant departments should implement tax reduction measures to prevent middle-link increase profits, so that the vast number of consumers to benefit and promote domestic industry competitiveness.
In fact, the reduction of consumer goods such as home appliances import tariffs, the last time the import of consumer goods tariff increase, only six months. November 22, 2017, the State Council Customs Tariff Commission issued "on the adjustment of some consumer goods import duties Notice", from December 1, 2017 onwards, the provisional tax rate to reduce some of the import tariffs on consumer goods, covering the scope of food, health products, pharmaceuticals, daily chemical supplies, clothing shoes and hats, household equipment, cultural and entertainment
, groceries department stores and other consumer goods, a total of 187 8-digit tax number, the average tax rate from 17.3% to 7.7%. In the import tariff adjustment of the consumer goods, the household appliance products occupy a large proportion, a total of 30 imports of household appliances goods tariff reduction, of which, personal care and household care small household electrical appliances to reduce the tax, such as electric iron, from 35% MFN rate to 10%; drip coffee machine, distilled filter type coffee machine, pump press type coffee machine by 30 % of the MFN rate reduced to 10%; household automatic bread machine, slice bake machine import duty reduced by 16% to 16%; electric toothbrush, shaver import duty fell to 10%, cut 20%, electric intelligent toilet cover from 32% MFN rate reduced to 10%;
Large household electrical appliances, refrigeration capacity ≤ 4,000 kcal/when the window or wall split air conditioner and refrigeration capacity ≤ 4,000 kcal/time heat pump air conditioner, from 15% of the MFN rate to 10%, down 5%. State Department: July 1 to reduce import duties such as refrigerator washing machine