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    • Posted May 21 , 2018

    Announcement of the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council on Reducing Import Duties on Drugs

    Source: Chinese Medicine Newspaper

    Note: Contents may be edited for style and length

    Tax Commission Announcement [2018] No. 2

    In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Import and Export Tariff Regulations of the People’s Republic of China and in order to reduce the burden of medicine for the vast majority of patients, especially cancer patients who have more choice of drugs, since 1st May 2018, the imported duty of all common drugs including anticancer drugs, alkaloids with anticancer effects and imported Chinese medicine has dropped to zero at a tentative rate. The specific tax items and tax rates are listed in the table below.

     

    Provisional tax rate adjustment table for the most favoured nation of imported drugs

     

    Series

    No.

    		Tariff CodeProductsRate for the most favoured nations (%)The provisional tariff will be effective from 1st May 2018
    130041011Ampicillin preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    230041012Hydroxyampicillin preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    330041013Penicillin V preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    430041019Other penicillin preparations (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    530041090Drugs containing penicillin and penicillin derivatives of penicillianic structure or streptomycin and its derivatives (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    630042011Cefotaxime preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    730042012Ceftazidime preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    830042013Cefoxitin preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    930042014Ceftzazole preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    1030042015Cefaclor preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    1130042016 Cefuroxime preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    1230042017 Ceftriaxone (Ceftriaxone) Preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    1330042018Cefoperazone preparation (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    1430042019Containing other cephalosporin preparations (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    1530042090Drugs containing other antibiotics (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    1630043110Drugs containing recombinant human insulin (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    5

    		 

    0

    1730043190Drugs containing other insulin (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    5

    		 

    0

    1830043200Cortisol-containing drugs (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    5

    		 

    0

    1930043900Other products containing tax item 29.37 (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    5

    		 

    0

    20ex30044900Anticancer drugs containing alkaloids and their derivatives (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    5

    		 

    0

    2130045000Other medicines containing vitamins or other drugs containing tax item 29.36 (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    2230046010Chinese medicine containing artemisinin and its derivatives (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    4

    		 

    0

    2330046090Other drugs containing anti malaria active ingredients listed in the explanatory note No 2 at the Subheadings of This Chapter 

    4

    		 

    0

    2430049010Drugs containing sulphonamides (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    6

    		 

    0

    2530049051Traditional Chinese medicine wine (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    3

    		 

    0

    2630049054Cooling ointment (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    3

    		 

    0

    2730049059Other Chinese traditional medicines (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    3

    		 

    0

    2830049090Other drugs (mixed or unmixed, used for the treatment or prevention of diseases, has been dosed or made into retail packaging) 

    4

    		 

    0

    Note: “ex” before the tariff code indicates that the taxable import goods using the provisional tax rate should be within the scope of the tariff code and the specific description of the commodity shall prevail. The names of other commodities are for reference only. The scope of specific commodities shall be based on the corresponding commodity ranges stipulated in the tariff code of the People’s Republic of China Import and Export Tariff.

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