In 2010, the new import and export tariff of People's Republic of China was implemented in January 1st.

The import and export tariffs of leather industry in 2010 showed the following new characteristics:

First, the most favored nation import tariff rate of China's leather industry has been completed according to the WTO commitment. Compared with 2009, only three customs tariffs on semi finished leather import tariffs have been slightly reduced.

The most favored nation tariff of leather industry in 2010 was 12.09%.

Two, the scope and scope of tariff preferences in bilateral or multilateral free trade zones continue to increase.

China has implemented an agreement tax rate on products that have signed free trade agreement countries and regions, and its tariff rate is lower than the preferential tax rate.

Compared with the previous year, China's tariff rate on imports of leather products in 2010 has been greatly increased from Chile, ASEAN, Pakistan and New Zealand.

In 2010, the average import duty of China's leather products imported from Chile was 0.77%, 11.32 percentage points lower than the most favored nation average import tariff, 0.85 percentage points lower than the previous year. On the basis of the import tariff of shoes and footwear parts reduced to 0 last year, the import tariff of semi finished leather, raw fur and tannage fur also dropped to 0.

In 2010, China's tariff preferences for imports from ASEAN expanded from eight countries to ten countries. Except for 94012010 leather or recycled leather seats, the average import tariffs of other leather products were 0.

In 2010, the average import tariff of China's leather products imported from Pakistan was 8.01%, 4.08 percentage points lower than the most favored nation average import tariff, 0.43 percentage points lower than the previous year.

In 2010, the average import tariff of China's imports from New Zealand was 5.08%, 7.01 percentage points lower than the most favored nation average import tariff, 2.17 percentage points lower than the previous year.