China News Service, Qingdao, April 8 (Reporter Yang Bing, Hu Yaojie) Qingdao Customs announced on the 8th that according to statistics, the European Union has opened new tariff quotas for Chinese poultry meat. In the past year, the customs issued a total of 735 batches of poultry meat exported to the EU. The Certificate of Origin for Products under the Special Non-Preferential Import Arrangements for Export to the European Union is applicable to the value of 403 million yuan for poultry meat with a lower tax rate within the EU quota (the same applies below).
Yao Yong, a first-level investigator from the Customs Division of Qingdao Customs, said that at present, all domestic enterprises that are qualified to export EU poultry products are in Shandong Province. In order to promote the Chinese poultry industry to seize the opportunity to enter the EU market, Qingdao Customs carried out policy promotion for poultry meat export enterprises, optimized the origin management services, promoted the reform of the two certificates for the registration of foreign trade operators and the origin enterprises, and promoted international trade The "single window" declaration promotes companies to use EU tariff quotas to reduce tariff costs and increase Chinese poultry meat market share in the EU.
"Since the EU opened the duck meat quota to China, the company exported 4,700 tons of roast duck to the EU, an increase of about 25% year-on-year, and the export volume increased significantly." Yang Laili, manager of the international trade department of Yingyuan Co., Ltd., said.
"After we went to the customs to apply for the" Certificate of Origin for Products under Special Non-Preferential Import Arrangements for the EU ", we can apply a lower tariff rate of 10.9% in the EU voucher." Yang Laili said that under the new tariff rate, the company At the time of customs clearance, the EU paid a tariff of about RMB 3,000 per ton of goods, which was 18,000 yuan lower than the special tariff before the EU opened its tariff quota. In the past year, the company exported 3140 tons of duck meat to the EU quota, and the tariff cost has been reduced by more than 50 million yuan.
Customs officers inspect the deboning of roast duck in the enterprise. Photo by Liang Chengbiao
Before the EU opened the new tariff quota last year, China shared a quota of 220 tons with other countries. With additional export duck meat, a special tariff of 2765 euros per ton was required. According to Yang Laili's estimate, the price of duck meat in the EU market is more than 6,000 US dollars per ton. After deducting special tariffs, China's domestic export price of duck meat should be about 4,000 US dollars per ton. This price can only keep production costs, plus management costs. It is about to lose money.
In November 2018, China and the EU reached an agreement that the EU will open a tariff quota of more than 10,000 tons for chicken and duck products exported from China. According to the European Commission ’s Implementation Regulation No. 2019/398, new tariff quotas will be opened to Chinese poultry meat products exported to Europe from April 1, 2019, including a country quota of 6,600 tons of duck meat products and a global quota of 5,000 tons of chicken products. Duck meat and chicken products within the quota are subject to lower tariff rates of 10.9% and 8%, respectively. (Finish)