Tariff exemptions cancelled for 15 kinds of Taiwanese fruits, with grapefruit and sugar apple being most affected

Published Sep 26, 2024

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The State Council Tariff Commission has announced the end of the policy exempting 34 agricultural products, including fresh fruits, vegetables, and aquatic products, from import tariffs originating from Taiwan, effective September 25. Tariffs will be restored to 5%-20% for these products. This decision may impact trade relations between Taiwan and the mainland, particularly affecting exports of sugar apple, pomelo, and other fruits, as well as aquatic products and vegetables. This is part of a larger trend of increasing tariffs and decreasing tariff exemptions, reflecting strained cross-strait relations and a significant decline in agricultural export value and tariff preferences over the past three years.

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According to the announcement of the State Council Tariff Commission, the policy of exempting 34 agricultural products from import tariffs, including fresh fruits, vegetables, and aquatic products, originating from Taiwan will be discontinued from September 25, and the tariffs of various products will be restored to 5%-20%, including the sugar apple, pomelo, and white hairtail fish that have just been restarted to be imported into the mainland. Among the 34 Taiwanese agricultural products whose tariff reductions have been cancelled this time, fruits include coconut, betel nut, pineapple, guava, mango, pomelo, papaya, peach, plum, sugar apple (sugar apple), carambola, wax apple, jujube, persimmon, and loquat; aquatic products include flounder, herring, mackerel, hairtail, pomfret, sea bass, shrimp, and mussels; vegetables include onion, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, carrot, loofah, Qingjiang vegetable, pakchoy, bitter melon, wasabi, and taro. The tariffs of various Taiwanese ...

Source: Guojiguoshu