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SUPPLEMENTARY CIRCULAR OF MINISTRY OF FINANCE, GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF CUSTOMS AND STATE ADMINISTRATION OF TAXATION ON RELEVANT ISSUES OF ADJUSTING EXPORT TAX REFUND RATE OF SOME COMMODITIES

Supplementary Circular of Ministry of Finance, General Administration of Customs and State Administration of Taxation on Relevant
Issues of Adjusting Export Tax Refund Rate of Some Commodities

Cai Shui [2006] No. 145
September 29, 2006

The competent departments of finance and taxation in all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central
government and cities specifically designated in the state plan, Guangdong Sub-Administration of China Customs, Special Commissioners’
Office in Shanghai and Tianjin, the customs offices directly affiliated to the General Administration of Customs, and the Bureau
of Finance in Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps:

As of the distribution of the Circular of Ministry of Finance, State Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce, General
Administration of Customs and State Administration of Taxation on Adjusting Export Tax Refund Rate of Some Commodities and Supplementing
the Prohibited Catalogue for Processing Trade (Cai Shui [2006] No. 139), some problems in its implementation and its appendix have
been reported and it is hereby supplemented as follows:




I

I.
Provisions of Tax Refund Rate of Commodities Listed in the Appendix of the
Document Cai Shui [2006] No. 139

1.      
1.
Commodities which apply the original tax refund rates. The commodities as
follows in the “List of Commodities with Reduced Export Tax Refund Rates”
still apply the original tax refund rates:

Sequence
Number
Chapter Tariff Code Name Original Tax Refund Rate
844 63 63090000 Old clothes 0
967 72 72181000 Stainless
ingot and other primary products
0
968 72189100 Semi-finished stainless steel products of rectangular
cross section
0
969 72189900 Other semi-finished stainless steel products 0
996 72241000 Other alloy ingots and primary products 0
997 72249010 Rough wrought bars, individual weight ￿￿0 tons 0
998 72249090 Other alloy steel billets 0
1108 80 80030000 Stannum and stannum alloy poles, bars and filaments 5
1109 80040000 Stannum and stannum alloy plates, sheets and strips,
thickness >0.2mm
5

2.      
2. Delete two
commodities from the “List of the List of Commodities with Reduced Export
Tax
Refund Rates”, i.e. “unalloyed nickel powder and flaky powder”, No. 1081
and Tariff Item No. 75040010, and “alloy nickel
powder and flaky powder”,
No. 1082 and Tariff Item No.75040020.

3.      
3. The tax
refund rate of “iron or unalloyed steel wire plated or coated with zinc”,

No. 964 and Tariff Item No.72172000 in the “List
of the Commodities with Reduced Export Tax Refund Rates”, shall be 8%.

4.      
4. Adjust the
Tariff Item of certain export commodities in the “List of the Commodities
with
Reduced Export Tax Refund Rates”.

a.      
a. “Other
polyvinyl plates, sheets and strips”, No. 99 and Tariff
Item No.39201090,
is split into “Ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene Film”, Tariff Item No.75040010 and with a tax refund rate of 11%, and
“non-foam

polyethylene plates, sheets, films, foils and riglets”, Tariff Item No.
3920109090, with a tax refund rate of 11%.

b.      
b. “Other
propylene polymer plates, sheets and strips”, No. 101 and Tariff
Item
No.39202090, is modified into “non-foam polypropylene plates, sheets,
films, foils and riglets”, Tariff Item No.3920209090″
and with a tax refund
rate of 11%.

c.      
c. “Polyvinyl chloride plates, sheets, films, foils and
riglets, plasticizer by weight￿￿%”,
No. 103 and Tariff Item No.39204300, is modified into
“polyvinyl
chloride plates, sheets, films, foils and riglets”, Tariff
Item No.3920430090
and with a tax refund rate of 11%.

d.      
d. “Polyvinyl
chloride plates, sheets, films, foils and riglets, plasticizer by weight
￿￿6%”,
No. 104 and Tariff
Item No.39204900, is modified into “other polyvinyl chloride plates, sheets,
films, foils and
riglets”, Tariff Item No.3920490090 and with a tax refund
rate of 11%.

e.      
e. “Bamboo
throwaway chopsticks”, No. 192 and Tariff Item No.44190032, is modified
into “other
bamboo throwaway chopsticks”, Tariff Item No.4419003290 and with a tax refund
rate of 11%.

5.      
5. Add the commodities as follows in the “List of
Commodities without Export Tax Refund
Rates”: “pure magnesium oxide”, Tariff Item No.25199091,
“other magnesium oxide”, Tariff Item
No.219909990, and “wollastonite”,
Tariff Item No.25309091.

6.      
6. Adjust the
Tariff Item and the name of certain commodities in the “List of Export

Commodities with Raised tax Refund Rates”. The name of the commodity No. 192
is “gas chromatograph”, and that of No. 169
is “palmitostearin”.
The Tariff
Item of “computer
parts and accessories (including magnetic head and memory bar)”,
which is
originally No.84733090
and the commodity code No. 14, is
split to two, i.e. No. 84733010 and No. 84733090.
The magnetic head and the
memory bars of supercomputers, mainframe computers, medium-sized computers and
minicomputers
are incorporated into Tariff Item No. 84733010 and the reserved
memory bar of microcomputers and other automatic data processing
equipment is
included into Tariff Item No. 84733090.

II.
Clarify the Catalogue of Commodities with Export Tax Refunds Cancelled before
the Document Cai Shui [2006] No.139

The
Document Cai Shui [2006] No.139
has clearly stated: “List the commodities with export tax refunds cancelled
now and before
into the catalogue of prohibited processing trade. Collect import
tariff and import linkage tax from commodities listed in the
catalogue of
prohibited processing trade”. The appendix of the document nevertheless does
not include the catalogue of commodities
whose export refunds had already been
cancelled. It is hereby supplemented with “Catalogue
of Commodities with Export Tax Refund
Cancelled Before September 15, 2006”,
which consists of the commodities whose export tax refund had already been
cancelled
before the present adjustment. See the appendix for details.

Appendix:
“Catalogue of Commodities with Export Tax Refund Cancelled Before September
15, 2006”

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Appendix:

Catalogue of Commodities with Export Tax Refund Cancelled Before
September 15, 2006

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No. Tariff
Item
Name
of Commodity
1 03019210 Eel fry
2 05061000 Bone, horn and column, unprocessed or degreased,
initially processed (unslit), treated with acid or degummed; powder of

the above products

3 05069011
4 05069019
5 05069090
6 2504 Natural graphite
7 2508 Other clay, etc.
8 2510 Natural calcium phosphate,
calcium
alumina phosphate, and
phosphate chalk
9 25191000 Magnesium products under the previous tariff item
numbers
10 25199010
11 25199020
12 25199030
13 2519909910
14 25261020 Talcum products under the previous tariff item numbers
15 25262020
16 25292100 Fluorite products under the previous tariff item numbers
17 25292200
18 25309020 Rare earth
19 25309099 Magnesium products under the previous tariff item
numbers
(bricks of magnesia waste)
20 Chapter 26 Ore, slag and calx, including ore and concentrate of
iron, manganes, copper, nickel, cobalt, aluminum, zinc, stannum, chrome,

tungsten, uranium, titanium, columbium, tantalum, vanadium, molybdenum
and noble metals, and other residues,
scoria and calx

21 27011210 Caking coal
22 27040010 Coke and semi-coke
23 2706 Tar and other mineral tar distilled from coal, lignite
or peat, dehydrated or partly distilled, remade tar included
24 27101110 Motor and aviation gasoline
25 27101120 petroleum
naphtha
26 27101911 Aviation kerosene
27 27101912 Lamp kerosene
28 27101921 Light
diesel oil
29 27101922 Fuel oil No.5-7
30 27101929 Other diesel oil and fuel
oil
31 27101991 Lubricating oil
32 27101992 Lubricating grease
33 27101993 lube
base oil
34 27101999 Other heavy oil; unnamed
products with the above oil as the basic elements
35 27109100 Waste oil
36 27109900
37 28046900.1 Silicon metal products
under
the previous tariff item numbers
38 28047010 Phosphor
39 28047090 Rare Earth Products under the Previous Tariff Item
Numbers
40 28053011
41 28053012
42 28053019
43 28053021
44 28053029
45 28181000 Artificial corundum
46 28182000 Aluminum oxide
47 28183000
48 2826900010 Potassium
fluotantalate
49 28461010 Rare earth oxide products
under the previous tariff item numbers
50 28461020 Rare earth salt products
under
the previous tariff item numbers
51 28461030
52 28461090
53 28469011 Rare earth oxide products
under the previous tariff item numbers
54 28469012
55 28469013
56 28469014
57 28469019
58 28469028 Rare earth salt products
under
the previous tariff item numbers
59 28469029
60 28469030
61 28469048
62 28469049
63 28469090
64 28491000 Calcium carbide
65 28492000 Silicon carbide products
under the previous tariff item numbers
66 29022000 Benzene
67 3004909020 Pacilitaxel products
68 3102100010 Carbamide products
69 3102100090
70 31028000
71 3105300010 Diammonium
phosphate, monoammonium phosphate
72 3105300090
73 31054000
74 3824909010 Silicon carbide products
under the previous tariff item numbers
75 4101 Raw fur under the previous
tariff item numbers
76 4102
77 4103
78 4104 Leather
under
the previous tariff item numbers
79 4105
80 4106
81 4301 Raw furskin
82 4401 Fuel wood, wood in chips or particles, sawdust, wood
waste and scraps
83 4403 Log
84 4404 Hoopwood, split wooden poles, sheets and
chipwood, etc.
85 4405 Wood-Wool, Wood Powder
86 4407 Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, or sliced or peeled,
more than 6mm thick
87 4408 Facing sheets, etc., more than 6mm thick
88 4409 Lumber continuously shaped along any of its edges, ends
and faces