After China's accession to the WTO, all agricultural products are subject to a ceiling

Introduction: Tian Weiming, a research expert of China's WTO and professor of agricultural economics of China Agricultural University, recently introduced to reporters that after China's accession to the WTO, the tariff of all agricultural products will be subject to a ceiling restriction, and the arithmetic average tariff rate will be reduced from 17% last year to 15% in 2004 By the end of the implementation period, China's agricultural tariff will remain between 0% and 65% For sensitive commodities such as grain, vegetable oil, cotton, wool, sugar and rubber, the foreign planning and management will be cancelled and the tariff quota system will be implemented instead Professor Tian said that the so-called quota system is that the tariff rate is 1% when the quantity of wheat imports is less than the minimum market access volume (8.452 million tons); when the quantity of wheat imports is higher than the minimum market access volume, the tariff rate is 71% Professor Tian also said that in order to prevent our country from using the national trade management system to fail to fulfill the minimum market access commitments, the United States requires a certain proportion of quotas to be distributed to non-state enterprises (private enterprises) Next year, the quota for wheat will be 8.452 million tons, and will increase to 9.3 million tons by 2004, with private enterprises accounting for 10% of the quota Next year, the quota for corn will be 5.695 million tons, which will increase to 7.2 million tons by 2004 The quota for private enterprises will increase from 25% in 2002 to 40% Ji9 on the tariff of meat products, Professor Tian said that all meat products are subject to a single tariff system China's beef tariff is currently 40%, which will be reduced to 23.2% next year and 12% in 2004 Pork tariffs are currently 20 per cent, which will fall to 18.4 per cent next year and 2.4 per cent in 2004 Professor Tian said that after China's accession to the WTO, tariff reduction will have a small impact on China's agricultural products in general, but it may have a certain impact on meat, fruit and aquatic products; although the minimum market access quota system has some protective effects on China's agriculture, the minimum market access quota system will have a large impact on domestic agricultural products in the short term, especially on cotton, vegetable oil and soybeans Ji9 (author:) shared on feed Weibo to: